Landlord charged with hate crime, accused of stabbing 6-year-old tenant to death allegedly because family is Muslim | CNN
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A Chicago-area landlord has been arrested and charged with murder and hate crimes after authorities said he stabbed and killed a 6-year-old boy and seriously wounded his mother, allegedly because the tenants are Muslim.
  • @wwaxen@lemmy.world
    8•2 years ago

    Hate crime (not hate speech) is an aggravating circumstance to a given crime (in this case, murder) that in many places carries a harsher sentence.

    That this is a murder is obvious. That this may be part of some “retaliation” against Muslims is what makes this world news (though not in the Reddit/Lemmy sense).