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It was a hate crime, even if it was done during a moment of opportunity, rather than planned. Yelling about the man’s cultural/religious attire as he’s beating him to death for having a fender bender is a hate crime. Charge the fuck with a hate crime.

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A few years ago there were 2 murders within 24 hours in my neighborhood.

On Nextdoor, the buzz quickly descended into "this must be the work of Al Quaida/ISIS."

Why? Because the first victim was a Hasidic Jew, and the second victim was an elderly gay man. The police were pretty sure the same gun was used for both murders, but they never found the gun or the perp.

I tried to point out that A ) Neither terrorist group took credit, B ) it doesn't fit their pattern to kill innocent individual nobodies and C ) There wasn't a witness or any other evidence so there's nothing that leads into that specific direction so it's irresponsible to go there.

I was called a gatekeeping scold and got a lot of huffy "with all due respect...." rants aimed at me. They seem to think I was some sort of bad person for not being cool with wild speculation.

That's when I closed my Nextdoor account.

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