From FOX News:
St. Louis’ Bosnian community sees hammer murder as hate crime
Insistence by St. Louis officials that the beating death of a Bosnian man was not a hate crime is being met with skepticism and anger, according to leaders of the city's 70,000-strong Bosnian community, and the victim's brother is calling on authorities to "investigate every possible motive."
Zemir Begic, a 32-year-old man who emigrated from war-torn Bosnia almost two decades ago in search of a better life, was bludgeoned to death Sunday, allegedly by a group of hammer-wielding teenagers, one of whom has been charged as an adult. Begic was driving with his fiancee, Arijana Mujkanovic, and a male passenger at about 1:15 a.m. Sunday in St. Louis when five teenagers began pounding his vehicle with a hammer, according to police. When Begic confronted them, he was struck in the mouth, face, head and body with hammers and died at a nearby hospital.
More:
The murder early Sunday of Begic has sparked protests, some consciously patterned after those taking place just 20 miles away in Ferguson, where the police shooting of a black man and a subsequent grand jury decision not to indict a police officer prompted racial anger and a federal civil rights probe. But the St. Louis Police Department and Mayor Francis Slay are insisting Begic’s death, allegedly at the hands of black and Latino teenagers, was not based on racial or ethnic hate.
Can't call a spade a spade because, 'ya know, that would be RACISSSS!!!
Our Nation is in the best of hands. Racial animus was a really rare thing until this president started stirring things up. Denny links to some real data on St. Louis and matters of race:
86.7% of those arrested for aggravated assault in St. Louis in 2011 were black.
90.3% of those arrested for robbery in St. Louis in 2011 were black.
92% of those arrested for murder in St. Louis in 2011 were black.
86.2% of those arrested for forcible rape in St. Louis in 2011 were black.
84.7% of those arrested for aggravated assault in St. Louis in 2012 were black.
91.8% of those arrested for robbery in St. Louis in 2012 were black.
97.6% of those arrested for murder in St. Louis in 2012 were black.
78.6% of those arrested for forcible rape in St. Louis in 2012 were black.
The data does not lie.
If I were King? Repeal Lyin' Bastard Johnson's "Great Society". Cut corporate taxes, especially for small businesses. Cut personal tax rates. In lockstep with these two cuts, kill all tax loopholes. Get rid of the lobbyists. Detroit could become an economic powerhouse again. The market is there - get rid of crony capitalism and it will come roaring back.
