re: Teen beats registered sex offender, now faces hate crime charges

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agree or disagree with the hate crime charge?

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Agree

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He should be thankful they're not tacking on false statements to a police officer in addition to that.

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that can sometimes lead to charges greater than the original crime

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sex offender is no different than you and I out in public

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Fightin words if i ever heard any.
Truly stupid post btw

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agree or disagree with the hate crime charge?

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I disagree with the entire concept of hate crimes.

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This sex offender was minding his own business and not hurting anyone. He's no different than you and I out in public.

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but if I punch you in the face it wouldn't be a hate crime

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Where does being a registered sex offender fit into these classes for it to be a hate crime?

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my best guess

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because of actual or perceived....sexual orientation

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don’t know if that actually fits or not, but a good lawyer could probably argue it.

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Where does being a registered sex offender fit into these classes for it to be a hate crime?

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Who gives a shite.

Person:"I beat the frick out of stranger!"

Prosecutor: "That's illegal!"

Person: "And I did it for one of the reasons on this list!"

Prosecutor: "THAT'S EVEN MORE ILLEGALER!!!!!!!!! OMFG!"

See how fricking stupid that is.

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Soon, extreme lefties will try to push and normalize child predators/pedophilia. It's already happening. Here is a NEW YORK TIMES article about pedophilia being a sickness, and not a crime.

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The article was pointing out that having the condition is not a crime any more than someone who thinks about murder a lot is not a murderer. They may be a psychopath but they have not committed a crime. It is a mental illness and acting on it is a crime. I'd rather the issue be out in the open and have resources for these individuals to get help than keep it in the dark where their deviant instincts are allowed to fester until they act on them. Is that normalizing by your definition?

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Do you realize how many sex offenders would be registered if every 18-19 year old that slept with a 16 was busted...People in that position should not be treated the same as a 40 year old that molest a 5 year old.

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There are people on the sex offender list who got caught taking a piss in public.

7 Surprising Things That Could Make You A Sex Offender


1) Taking naked photos of yourself — if you're a minor. Teenagers who take nude photographs of themselves could get charged with child pornography and be put on sex registries, according to a 2013 report from Human Rights Watch. Kids who send naked photos that are viewed in another state could be charged with a federal crime, personal injury lawyer Linda Jane Chalat has written.

A 15-year-old girl in Pennsylvania was charged in 2004 with spreading child porn after taking nude photos of herself and putting them online, according to Human Rights Watch. She was still on the sex offender registry as of 2012.

2) Visiting a prostitute. While former New York governor Eliot Spitzer does not appear to be on New York's sex offender registry, patronizing a prostitute is considered a "registerable offense" in the Empire State. Until recently, some prostitutes in Louisiana could be registered sex offenders, too.

3) Peeing in public. At least 13 states require sex offender registration for public urination, according to Human Rights Watch's comprehensive review of sex offender laws in 2007. Two of those states specify that the urination must happen in front of a minor.

4) Flashing your breasts. You can get arrested for indecent exposure in California if you flash your breasts in front of a lot of people in order to gratify yourself or offend somebody else, according to the Shouse Law Group, a group of California criminal defense lawyers. And indecent exposure can land you on the sex offender registry.

5) Having consensual sex with a teenager, even if you're a teenager, too. At least 29 states require teenagers who have had consensual sex with each other to register as sex offenders, according to the Human Rights Watch Report from 2007. In Georgia, a woman named Wendy Whitaker was on the sex offender registry for years for having sex with a classmate when she was 17 and he was 15.

Bammers, pay close attention to this next one.

6) Sleeping with your sister. Incest is not just a social taboo; it's also illegal in a lot of states. Football player Tony Washington learned that lesson the hard way after getting in trouble for having sex with his 15-year-old sister when he was 16. "I didn't know it was illegal," Washington told ESPN in 2010.

Washington, who had an incredibly troubled home life, pleaded guilty to prohibitive sexual conduct, according to the Toronto Star. He was charged under a Texas law that bars sexual contact between family members. He became a registered sex offender. His past continued to haunt him.

7) Giving another child a hug. There's been momentum recently to get rid of requirements that children register as sex offenders, the Wall Street Journal reported. Five residents of Colorado who were found delinquent for sex crimes as kids recently sued the state to fight a law that forced them to register as sex offenders, according to the Journal.

One of those Colorado residents had been accused of trying to hug a girl at his elementary school too much when he was 13.

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He’s way different than you and I....

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His status has a sex offender does not give you the right to beat the shite out of him if he's minding his own business, is not hurting anyone and is legally a free man.

In that regard, he's no different than any other random Joe Blow.

The cops arresting this teenager makes that point very clear.

Get over it.