{"id":124,"date":"2007-02-16T15:28:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T23:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2007-12-09T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T21:28:15","slug":"justice-takes-a-beating-in-long-beach-racial-hatred-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Justice takes a beating in Long Beach racial hatred case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/home\/preview.php?id=17221\">Pastor Joe R. Hicks writes in the Jewish Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> After a lengthy process, that saw witness intimidation from gang members (one was forced to move; another had her car totaled), the expectation was &#8212; that if found guilty &#8212; a verdict and sentence would be handed down that delivered a strong message of intolerance for such uncivilized acts.Instead, another message was delivered &#8212; that racism in its black guise will be treated with leniency and &quot;understanding,&quot; since this kind of racial retribution is an undesirable but understandable outgrowth of historic mistreatment at the hands of whites. What complete rubbish.<\/font>  In case you wondered, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Affairs, out of the 1.2 million cases of interracial crimes each year, 90 percent involve a black perpetrator and a white victim. The interests of law and order and a civil society were not served well by this judge&#8217;s sentences. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Joe R. Hicks writes in the Jewish Journal: After a lengthy process, that saw witness intimidation from gang members (one was forced to move; another had her car totaled), the expectation was &#8212; that if found guilty &#8212; a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=124\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-race"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}