We recently highlighted this story. The alleged attacker was wielding a baseball bat, had a dog, and was screaming ‘genocide’ as he ran toward the couple. What he was doing was pretty clear.
Now we are learning that the charges he is actually facing are quite minimal, and there is no hate crime enhancement. It’s just ridiculous.
The Jerusalem Post reports:
After Santa Monica attack, setting dog to bite Jewish victim, man charged but not with hate crimeAfter allegedly stalking a couple in Santa Monica because they were wearing Star of David necklaces, threatening to kill them, and commanding his dog to bite one of them, a suspect was charged on Thursday – but not with a hate crime modifier, upsetting the victims’ advocates.Nay Min Tar was charged with one felony count of criminal threats and one count of misdemeanor battery, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, after an incident last Sunday in which Tar allegedly set his Italian mastiff on a couple.A friend of the victim, legal scholar Benjamin Basire, told The Jerusalem Post that Tar had targeted the pedestrian couple because they had been wearing Star of David necklaces, and had followed them for almost two blocks prior to the attack.Tar allegedly threatened to kill the couple. “You’re a Zionist, mother f**king pedophile, mother f**king Jewish,” the 49-year-old Illinois man said from his vehicle while waving a bat through the window, according to a video of the incident published by Basire. “Child killer!”…Basire said that the victim is recovering from multiple dog bites to his thighs and posterior, as well as from the emotional trauma of the attack.
The police are scrambling to defend the decision, not to add the hate crime enhancement.
The Jewish News Syndicate reports:
Santa Monica police defends not calling attack on Jews a hate crimeThe Santa Monica Police Department defended its decision not to call an attack on a Jewish couple, in which a man was captured on video displaying a bat and chasing after them with a dog, a hate crime.“The fact that the filed charges do not include a hate crime enhancement does not mean the reported language or conduct was acceptable, nor does it diminish the impact on the victims or the broader community,” the Greater Los Angeles area department said on Thursday.“Criminal threats remain a serious charge and reflect the threatening conduct reported during the incident,” it said.“Hate has no place in Santa Monica,” stated Darrick Jacob, the police chief. “We understand the fear and harm these incidents can create, not only for the victims, but for the broader community.”“Our responsibility is to respond quickly, document the facts thoroughly, and pursue accountability through the legal process,” he added.The police department said that it “understands the concern this incident caused, particularly among members of the Jewish community and others who viewed the video or heard reports about the incident.”
All the talk about ‘hate has no place here’ is nothing but lip service.
Anyone with a functioning brain knows what was happening here.
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