Racist black teens torture white man live for supporting Trump

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CGI-Quality said:

TheLegendaryWolf said:

In fact I have vaguely heard of that event on the news and you are correct it certainly wasn't covered enough which is lamentful. I also would like to clairfy that I'm not saying that coverage for this particular incident has been sparse, I mean it was covered on the spanish-speaking news and rightfully called a hate crime of sorts. My issue is more with a significant portion of the mainstream outlets, even with on-camera evidence, refusing to call it what it is, a hate crime. 

They won't call it a hate crime because the police themselves haven't even called it that, yet (and don't want to until there's a complete investigation). Most agree that it's a horrific, ugly crime regardless (which it is).

To others, the reason why you won't see as much backlash is partially because the four teens have been arrested. Lots of times, that's not the case.

MSNBC coveres it here (and they do talk about it being a hate crime): http://www.msnbc.com/craig-melvin/watch/4-held-after-apparent-torture-in-facebook-live-video-848376899977

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hate-crime-charges-not-ruled-out-sickening-facebook-live-torture-n703456

NBC calls it hate crime as well.