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Illinois woman charged with hate crime, accused of assaulting man wearing "Palestine" sweatshirt

www.cbsnews.com Illinois woman charged with hate crime, accused of assaulting man wearing "Palestine" sweatshirt

A 64-year-old woman from Chicago's western suburbs is facing hate crime charges and accused of assaulting a Palestinian-American couple in a video that went viral.

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Note that she only attempted her physical battery toward the pregnant woman, as it was obvious that the dude could have put her through the floor at any time. She wanted to hurt his pregnant wife. Yeah, thassa hate crime.

Man showed remarkable restraint.
- I think the best punishment would be to force her and her family to live in Palestine for a year.
  
  The Palestinians have been through enough
  
  that is not a precedent we want set as jurisprudence in the USA
Gee, I wonder who she voted for...
- Well, to be fair, not all Democratic voters are exactly sympathetic to Palestine... Some are kinda pro-Israel
  
  But yea like 99% of the time its a Magat.
  
  Yes but even unsympathetic Dems aren't very likely to attack someone for their choice of sweatshirt
  
  Nah, most of the Zionists I know voted for Harris
  
  Edit: how is my personal experience being downvoted. Do you guys know what the Downvote button is for??
- Remember last time Trump was in power our feeds were full of Republicans behaving poorly in public? (in between the police beating protesters through most of 2020) - looks like we're going to get that back again now.
  
  their perception of how welcome their violence is intensified, too. the movement that killed Heather Heyer considers themselves ascendent. last time they had the electoral college and not the popular vote. this time, thanks to 10mil likely democrat voters who cculd swallow their pride for joe biden in 2020 but not for kamala harris in 2024, the very worst people on earth consider their view point to be the norm
  
  It'll be worse. Wait til he deputized his own brown shirts.
- Seeing lemmy for the past year, it's a fucking toss up.
  
  Thats more like reddit. Go take a look, its full of pro israel stuff. Some are even sympathetic to Netanyahu and compelete disregarded the civillians deaths in the pager attack in Lebanon and claimed it was some sort of genius strategy that had "minimal civillian deaths".
- There's just no way to know.
- and who'll rush to pay for her defense tooooooo what a patridiot lol
- If I had to guess it would be the party that gave more aid to Israel than ever, the Biden/Harris party Source
  
  Just wait until you see what Trump does for Palestine, boy are you in for a rude awakening. Congrats on sticking it to the democrats, I guess. Enjoy the next four years.
  
  Wait a second. You would assume the person votes for Biden/Harris because they support Israel while trying to keep Israel under control. You don't assume the person voted for the person who said he wants Israel to "finish the job" and enacted a Muslim travel ban?
  
  Are you really that stupid? Or are you just trying to make a political point?
  
  Damn why the downvotes? Its almost as if there was a concentrated Israeli effort to downvote facts about Israel? Can anyone tell me why I am ratioed so?
"Can I delay my trial until Jan?"
- It's November, no chance she's getting a court date earlier than Jan 6th. They all take months.
  
  December 16th, but probably just to plead.
  
  These are likely state felonies, so she wont be able to avoid consequences. I'm betting her "givegpraysend" or whatever that shit is will pay the bills, though.
What a vile woman.

Ya gotta appreciate the guy's perfectly executed Uno Reverse Card when she started winding up to throw her cup of coffee.
https://streamable.com/36e2vk
So was she disturbed or something? Like, if Alex Jones saw you wearing a Never Forget shirt in a grocery store, even he wouldn't tap you on the shoulder to tell you 9/11 was a hoax, would he?There are expected forums for being a bigot; Panera Bread was a weird choice.
- I mean, the entirety of the Israeli state is currently completely unhinged. In the Netherlands they used an Israeli football event to do mass hate crimes against anyone supporting Palestine.
  
  The biggest problem is that a lot of state actors are in complete agreement, stopping an Israeli from doing a hate crime is antisemitism.
As she should be.
She looks like my mom
- Give ya ma a phone
Emo Phillips warned us.

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