But mixed-race/ethnicity unfortunately doesn’t mean the same as a mixed race couple where (usually in the hate crime cases) one of the couple is white and the other is a visible ethnic minority (i.e. “racial” minority).

A Milwaukee police officer witnessed and testified about seeing the cops beat Jude. However, the jury ignored the testimony.

I believe that right now the civil rights laws are still set up in a way where you can’t claim racial discrimination on the basis of being mixed. Basically, you have to “pick” the ethnicity you believe is the target of the discrimination. In this victim’s case, presumably if he’s black/white, he’d have to specify that he was being discriminated against because he’s part black.

Obviously this situation isn’t ideal, because we *have* heard of cases where people are being discriminated against *because* they’re mixed. For example, mixed students whose teachers declare in class that they’re against interracial relationships and the offspring of such, etc.

It’s definitely an area in which we’ll probably see more activism in years to come.

CVK

I’m not up on the hate crime legislation either (and there are differences between state and federal laws on what qualifies).

But I read SPLC newsletters and it seems that what matters is that a victim is targeted BECAUSE of their perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, religion (and in some states, sexuality). Which is why a black cop can still be accused of racial profiling for excessive pull-overs of black motorists.

…it’s interesting to note that Jude is identified, repeatedly and without exception, as biracial or mixed-race. I wonder if that’s how he self-identifies and whether or not the cops’ racial taunts targeted his mixedness or his blackness.

I know next to nothing about hate-crime legislation, but this makes me wonder how multiracial people are treated by the law - both as perpetrators and as victims. If one of the cops had been a white-identifying biracial, for instance, could he still have been charged with a hate crime?

I’m also not suprised Faux News isn’t giving us news we need to know, but continues to feed us with chit we wanna hear!!!!!!!!