Jonathan Joss death: Police backtrack on hate crime denial

In a press conference on June 5, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said that the department's earlier statement saying there was "no evidence" Joss' murder was "related to his sexual orientation" was "way premature" and "before we had any real information."

Still lying.

"While it may be true that we told a lie before we had evidence, we really wanted that first lie to be true, so it's cool, right?
- The problem is they had evidence as Joss’ husband had said as much
So according to the Chief, their detective did not interview the surviving victim of the crime before talking to the press. Snappy police work there. "We're not bigots who enabled this murder by ignoring the prior complaints of the victims, we're just really stupid. Golly!"

The fucking account from his husband is the most clear cut hate crime shit.

They came home to their dead dogs skull in their driveway before the assailant approached them, yelling homophobic slurs, and shot him. Also, someone in their neighborhood set their house in fire earlier this year.

Fuck that county. I hope that king of the hill money gets used to turn that fucking county admin inside out.

"someone"
I think we can make a good guess as to who that might have been
- OR thats the victim blaming the christians are trying to sell you to occlude their sacred killings.

And they would have kept it as a “non hate crime” if the victim had not been a part of two popular TV shows…

Which ones are you counting? KOTH and Parks and Rec? Looks like he was also in walker Texas ranger and a movie called the Abduction of the Fourth Kind that looks intriguing
- Fourth Kind was gnarly.
They literally werent even gonna arrest the killers.
Christian places are not safe for us.
A christian church is a loud homophobic stayement, and shoukd be treated as such.

As always, ACAB.

- So who do you call when a shooter is in a school?
  Edit: I'll note that almost every reply here is just insulting me.
  Edit2: Still not a single serious answer.
  Edit3: Near as I can tell everyone calling me names, insulting me, avoiding the question, and voting me down are very upset that I've exposed the fact that they would, in fact, dial 911 in such a circumstance. And knowing that makes them deeply uncomfortable. And being unable to come to grips with that feeling they just lash out like children instead.
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Joss' murderer has a name and an address. He is currently under house arrest.

Wait house fucking arrest!!! Are you fucking kidding me? He murdered someone and it definitely was fucking hate crime and he isn't sitting in a fucking jail cell. Fuck Texas and fuck the police.
- He's out on a $200k bond. More than twice his home's value.
- First I thought this was an accusation XD
But lets not make him "famous".

I've been watching King of the Hill at work (all shift sometimes) recently and it's gotten to be real difficult to see the antagonistic characters on the show in the same light. Cartoons are supposed to be an exaggeration of their real life counterparts. Knowing what texas is harboring in real life really washes out the humor these antagonists are supposed to bring.

Same with Parks and Rec. For example, the episode making fun of people who think fluoride in water is a conspiracy
- Similarly, Dr. Strangelove hits different now.
- Every day I become a little more like Ron Swanson.

I will never go back to the U.S but especially Texas. Texas is a shit hole

I currently recommend staying out entirely because of the paranoid war against "immigration" that has made our borders openly hostile to everybody, but if that ever changes there's plenty of cities that are only as shitty as global average and if the national parks survive they are unmatched.

How was the husband’s testimony not suggestive of a hate crime? It’s like suggesting the guy who firebombed people in Boulder Colorado last week wasn’t committing a hate crime.

Afaik the Colorado thing wasn't a hate crime, it was an act of terrorism. It was motivated by political cause (antizionism), not identity (Jewishness).
- They will call it both because it was both.
- He was motivated by political cause but also he's prejudiced enough to be unable to distinguish genociders from a run club
Not to mention there are likely records of past incidents where they were threatened. Cops are now pretending like they weren’t aware of the hate crime issue before he was even dead.