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Topic: Murder of Australian in USA a hate crime?
Dodo_David's photo
Wed 08/21/13 07:57 PM
Here is an excerpt from a story posted by The Daily Caller.

One of the teens charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Australian baseball player Christopher Lane in Duncan, Okla., previously posted anti-white statements on his Twitter feed.

James Edwards, 15, Chancey Luna, 16, and Michael Jones, 17, have all been charged as adults in Lane’s death. Lane, a 22 year-old student from Melbourne, was out for a jog last Friday evening when the three teens began following him in a car and shot him “just for the fun of it,” according to Duncan officials.

Edwards and Luna are charged with first-degree murder while Jones is accused of using a vehicle in the discharge of a weapon and as an accessory to first-degree murder after the fact. Edwards and Luna are held without bond; Jones’ bond has been set at $1 million.

Edwards’ social media activities are still on stark display and show the teen glorifying hip-hop, violence and sex. Pictures on Facebook also show Edwards and Luna wearing gang colors and flashing gang signs.

A couple of Tweets also suggest that Edwards wasn’t fond of white people.

On April 29, he tweeted, “90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM.”

metalwing's photo
Wed 08/21/13 08:01 PM
Looks like a hate crime to me.

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Wed 08/21/13 08:27 PM
Edited by Ouizee on Wed 08/21/13 08:27 PM
That is terrible! So much hate!!

msharmony's photo
Thu 08/22/13 02:33 AM
we will see what the courts decide

tragic waste of life,,,,stories except this one claiming the kids just did it out of boredom,,,

EdwardCB's photo
Thu 08/22/13 03:10 AM
Massive uproar here about it ATM, everyone thinks that yeh it was a racist thing considering the shooters were black and the Aussie was white.. But hey that's the thing I guess most of the time only whites get labelled as racist but if ur Australian in general u get labelled a racist by most Americans. Funny how that works considering multiculturalism is a pretty big thing here..

msharmony's photo
Thu 08/22/13 03:14 AM

Massive uproar here about it ATM, everyone thinks that yeh it was a racist thing considering the shooters were black and the Aussie was white.. But hey that's the thing I guess most of the time only whites get labelled as racist but if ur Australian in general u get labelled a racist by most Americans. Funny how that works considering multiculturalism is a pretty big thing here..


we have a lot of 'racist' crime in America,, if we apply it to any interracial crime

but the 'hate crimes' have an element of racial motive that's harder to prove,,,


that is, someone may dislike black folks,, but they may get in an argument with me that turns into a fight and it wouldn't necessarily be a 'hate crime',,,


unless their REASON for fighting was my race, as opposed to some other reason (disagreement, argument)

EdwardCB's photo
Thu 08/22/13 03:18 AM
Yeh I get ur point.. On the news here it said they targeted him because of the girlfriend or something like that but then they showed his tweets etc etc so I'm not to sure what it would be. Either way its a shame regardless of country of birth or race that another young man lost his life other nothing

msharmony's photo
Thu 08/22/13 03:20 AM

Yeh I get ur point.. On the news here it said they targeted him because of the girlfriend or something like that but then they showed his tweets etc etc so I'm not to sure what it would be. Either way its a shame regardless of country of birth or race that another young man lost his life other nothing



absolutely agree,,,I always hate to hear young people losing their lives,,,,,

EdwardCB's photo
Thu 08/22/13 03:28 AM
And they say he was a promising young baseballer.. Real shame.. The 911 call sent chills down my spine. Luckily here we don't have a high rate of murders but I guess we have half the population.. But Australia is turning to **** now.. A lot has changed in 20 years, used to be able to leave ur front door unlocked, windows open and go to the shop come home and everything was still there, now ppl are robbing and bag snatching of senior citizens.. Must be all the American movies we watch :p

msharmony's photo
Thu 08/22/13 03:33 AM
sorry to hear that

seems like respect of life is declining all over,,,

willing2's photo
Thu 08/22/13 05:36 AM
Burn the feral basterds.

InvictusV's photo
Thu 08/22/13 06:39 AM
excerpt from a Time article..


The numbers don’t lie: young black men do commit about 50% of the murders in the U.S. We don’t yet know whether the attack on Lane was racially motivated, nor can we know whether the three black boys who attacked a white boy on a Florida school bus recently would not have done the same to a black kid. (Critics took Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to task for not condemning the violence.) But hardly uncommon are cases such as the two black guys who doused a white 13-year-old with gasoline and lit him on fire, saying “You get what you deserve, white boy” (Kansas City, Mo.) or 20 black kids who beat up white Matthew Owens on his porch “for Trayvon” (Mobile, Ala.).

So, it’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.

It’s not that black communities are in complete denial about these statistics — Stop the Violence events are a staple of high-crime areas. But let’s face it: black America isn’t nearly as indignant about black boys killing one another or whites as about the occasional white cop killing one black boy, even though the former wreaks much more havoc in black communities. There is no coordinated nationwide movement equivalent to the one Martin galvanized. There are no thoughtful films “exploring” black-on-black crime the way Fruitvale Station treats the death of Oscar Grant, a young black man who was killed by transit police in Oakland, Calif.

And recent example illustrates how many blacks feel about who is murdering whom. Two weeks ago, an NYPD cop killed 14-year-old Shaaliver Douse. Douse was in the process of shooting other people, and had been charged with shooting someone else in May — and yet his aunt compared him to Martin. In her mind, the main sin was the white cop’s.


http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/viewpoint-dont-ignore-race-in-christopher-lanes-murder/#ixzz2chkVDxUA

I applaud John McWhorter for having the guts to speak the truth.



msharmony's photo
Thu 08/22/13 11:25 AM
Edited by msharmony on Thu 08/22/13 11:27 AM
so, that means half the homicides also come from NON blacks huh?

and MOST of the crimes are intraracial,, so it makes more sense for blacks to fear EACH OTHER, and whites to fear EACH OTHER,, with that logic,,,

why don't white employers hesitate to hire white males who are much more likely to lose it when they face loss of a job or relationship?

why don't white women hesitate to date white men , who are much more likely to be serial killers?

and how many people over all are murderers?

still no reason to make homicidal tendency a racial thing,,,,or associate it with one race over another,,,


I don't think the Lane attack will be successfully labeled racist,,,

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/20/20102447-2-teens-charged-with-first-degree-murder-in-ballplayers-killing-in-oklahoma?lite




Dodo_David's photo
Thu 08/22/13 01:23 PM
Folks, the title of this thread is a question.

I don't know if the murder of the Australian was a hate crime.

However, I do know that James Edwards is a racist, which is why he posted what he posted on Twitter.

It may be only a coincidence that a black racist is charged with the murder of the Australian.

msharmony's photo
Thu 08/22/13 01:27 PM

Folks, the title of this thread is a question.

I don't know if the murder of the Australian was a hate crime.

However, I do know that James Edwards is a racist, which is why he posted what he posted on Twitter.

It may be only a coincidence that a black racist is charged with the murder of the Australian.


I think there are three or four charged,,,,

perhaps if he pulled the trigger,,, otherwise,,,the details will matter

Dodo_David's photo
Thu 08/22/13 01:29 PM


Folks, the title of this thread is a question.

I don't know if the murder of the Australian was a hate crime.

However, I do know that James Edwards is a racist, which is why he posted what he posted on Twitter.

It may be only a coincidence that a black racist is charged with the murder of the Australian.


I think there are three or four charged,,,,

perhaps if he pulled the trigger,,, otherwise,,,the details will matter


That still doesn't change the fact that James Edwards exposed himself as being a racist.

msharmony's photo
Thu 08/22/13 01:30 PM



Folks, the title of this thread is a question.

I don't know if the murder of the Australian was a hate crime.

However, I do know that James Edwards is a racist, which is why he posted what he posted on Twitter.

It may be only a coincidence that a black racist is charged with the murder of the Australian.


I think there are three or four charged,,,,

perhaps if he pulled the trigger,,, otherwise,,,the details will matter


That still doesn't change the fact that James Edwards exposed himself as being a racist.


at least one moment of racism,, yes



Dodo_David's photo
Thu 08/22/13 01:33 PM
Regarding the U.S. murder statistics pertaining to race, the FBI reports the following:

Of the offenders for whom race was known, 52.4 percent were black, 45.2 percent were white, and 2.4 percent were of other races. The race was unknown for 4,077 offenders.


Those statistics pertain to the year 2011.

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Dodo_David's photo
Thu 08/22/13 01:35 PM




Folks, the title of this thread is a question.

I don't know if the murder of the Australian was a hate crime.

However, I do know that James Edwards is a racist, which is why he posted what he posted on Twitter.

It may be only a coincidence that a black racist is charged with the murder of the Australian.


I think there are three or four charged,,,,

perhaps if he pulled the trigger,,, otherwise,,,the details will matter


That still doesn't change the fact that James Edwards exposed himself as being a racist.


at least one moment of racism,, yes


James Edwards tweeted, "“90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM".

That "one moment" expressed the racism within Edwards.

msharmony's photo
Thu 08/22/13 01:35 PM
from the same source

◾Concerning murder victims for whom race was known, 50.0 percent were black, 46.0 percent were white, and 2.6 percent were of other races. Race was unknown for 175 victims. (




yep,, blacks are killing black folks and whites are killing white folks,,,don't be too alarmed,,,

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