Changes for page Hate Crimes not charged as hate crimes
Last modified by Ryan C on 2025/08/18 04:18
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... ... @@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ 49 49 On July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson fatally shot five Dallas police officers, injuring nine more. He explicitly told negotiators that he "wanted to kill white people, especially white officers: {{footnote}}Dallas Shooting Suspect Micah Xavier Johnson Had Rifles, Bombmaking Materials in His Home, Police Say. https://abcnews.go.com/US/dallas-shooting-suspect-wanted-kill-white-people-white/story?id=40431306{{/footnote}} 50 50 51 51 Despite this clear racial motive: 52 -- No federal hate crime was pursued 53 53 - Headlines ignored the racial component entirely 54 -- Wikipedia’s article has over 100 references — **none** mention race in the headline 53 +- Wikipedia’s article has over 100 references — **none** mention race in the headline. You may think this is hyperbolic, but its not. 54 + 55 +[[image:1752852286848-220.png||data-xwiki-image-style="thumbnail-clickable" width="200"]] 55 55 - Media framing emphasized Johnson’s mental state, military background, and frustration over “social injustice” 56 56 57 57 This is a textbook example of hate crime **reclassification through omission** — a crime that met every standard for racial bias but was **deliberately stripped of that framing** because the victims were White.