Edited March 19, 20233 yr by Communion

Waiting for the usual suspects to justify this 

Racial complexity? Call it what it is: colonialism, stolen land, indigenous genocide. 

Bet it was an all white jury too smh

Deserved. You dont beat someone up for buying a house.

so who sold the home to them? maybe be mad at those people.
but anyway, you assault someone, you suffer consequences. so simple.

8 minutes ago, Eternal220 said:

You dont beat someone up for buying a house.

The conflict arose from the accuser trespassing and destroying private property, not because he bought a house. 

 

The physical altercation is not where the hate crime charges derives from either. The judge is arguing that the usage of "haole" denotes anti-white hatred. It'd be like arguing the usage of "gringo" in a fight constitutes anti-white hatred. There's an issue with hypocrisy with the assault charges (one has to just think of George Zimmerman being granted the right to stand his ground), but an assault charge would be reasonable. To suggest that there is grounds to file anti-white hate crime charges is the issue with the case.

 

 

Have they been fighting this in court for a whole decade? They say this happened in 2014

Just read the case facts. I don’t know about the “hate crime” aspect of it all, but their sentences are way too low for a violent crime like this. One of them is even a repeated offender. Lock them up! Props to the victim for not using the lethal force he’s entitled to. Violence doesn’t solve violence.

2 hours ago, flower moon said:

so who sold the home to them? maybe be mad at those people.
but anyway, you assault someone, you suffer consequences. so simple.

Right? That person cashed out.

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A jury convicted Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi Aki Jr. in November, finding that they were motivated by Christopher Kunzelman’s race when they punched, kicked and used a shovel to beat him in 2014. His injuries included a concussion, two broken ribs and head trauma.

 

“It was obviously a hate crime from the very beginning,” she said. “The whole time they’re saying things like, ‘You have the wrong skin color. No ‘haole’ is ever going to live in our neighborhood.’”

 

“When you watch the video ... there was almost like enthusiasm,” Seabright said. “Maybe that’s what’s so disturbing about this case.” 

The men took Kunzelman’s phone, which recorded the attack, and threw it in the ocean, said Christopher Perras of the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division.

After the assault, Aki referred to Kunzelman to police as a “rich Haole guy,” a “dumb haole,” and a “typical haole thinking he owning everything ... trying to change things up in Kahakuloa,” prosecutors said.

Sounds about right. Hawaii being colonized in the 18th and 19th century doesn’t justify beating up a white man in 2014. Don’t beat someone 2 on 1 with a shovel if you don’t want to get charged, it’s a simple concept. 

maybe shouldn't have been categorized as a hate crime, but if you maim a man with a shovel are you supposed to get off?  like hurting that man is not going to solve the problem of colonialism

electric chair all the colonizers 

Two things can be true:

 

You should not physically harm people.

 

You should not come into a community, force them to live by your standards, and be so entitled as to destroy their property.

 

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In an attempt to convey the animosity, prosecutors during the trial portrayed village residents as saying things like, “this is a Hawaiian village,” and “the only thing coming from the outside is electricity.”

But several non-Hawaiians who live or have lived peacefully in the village told the AP they never had problems.

“I am 82 years old. I have lived here for 50 years,” said Bruce Turnbull, a white, retired teacher who lives near Alo-Kaonohi’s family. “I’ve learned in Hawaii, coming from the outside in, it’s a good thing to live by the people around you and not tell them to live by you and your values.”

https://apnews.com/article/hawaiians-hate-crime-beating-sentence-55d0a9d504a49b062f56c1d09e662fd8

Edited March 7, 20233 yr by The7thStranger

They did the crime they should do the time 🤷

Well, they shouldn't have beat someone up with a shovel then.

22 hours ago, GhostBox said:

They did the crime they should do the time 🤷

 

The problem is, by labeling it a hate crime, they probably got five times the jail time than they would have gotten for just the assault. I found no mention of what state charges might have been brought against them. It does leave me wondering if there might have been a reluctance on the part of local prosecutors to bring charges against the native Hawaiians. The hate crime charges might have been the only way federal prosecutors could insure that something would be done in response to the attack