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Police: Somali man's killing in Rochester alley was a bias crime

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The beating death of a Somali man in a downtown alley has now been classified as a bias crime by Rochester police.

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Brenda

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It's a bias crime unless it's a minority on a white person crime witch is exactly why this country is going STRAIGHT down the tubes.
I don't condone violence of any kind on anybody but this is getting rediculous.
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The thought police want to bring EXTRA charges for what might be a BIAS crime?? Murder is murder - PERIOD.

How about all the whites killed by blacks? There is never hate-crime laws leveled at these animals.
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Do we live in Africa or America?
If the Somalis would just stay in there
own country America would be a much
better place.
Workaday Oakdale Brother

Saint Paul, MN

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What wrote:
The thought police want to bring EXTRA charges for what might be a BIAS crime?? Murder is murder - PERIOD.
How about all the whites killed by blacks? There is never hate-crime laws leveled at these animals.
Never? 20.6% doesn't sound like "never": http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2006/offenders.html

And I bet that from the point of an Iraqi mom who has lost a child to an American bomb, someone like *you* would probably be seen as an "animal".
Bob the Bilderberg

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Why do you leftists hate America?
Monk

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Bob the Bilderberg wrote:
Why do you leftists hate America?
Why do you hate the world?
A Proud American

Saint Paul, MN

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white pride wrote:
Do we live in Africa or America?
If the Somalis would just stay in there
own country America would be a much
better place.
We live in America.
If you don't like the Somali's, why don't you go back to wherever your family came from and let Americans live in peace?
A Proud American

Saint Paul, MN

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oxboro wrote:
Hard to tell when one is dead or not..the smell is the same
Don't judge them by your smell.

Since: Nov 08

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oxboro wrote:
Hard to tell when one is dead or not..the smell is the same
Still looking for attention I see.
Confused

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I'd be interested to see any sort of evidence that this was driven by a bias.

Because he was black and they are white, it must be right? I mean it couldn't possibly be anything else, I mean really, people of different races can't have interactions that aren't bias driven, can they? Extremely hypocritical if you ask me.

The fact is, that RPD has not made any information available that indicates that this was bias. I believe this was a re-action to threats of retaliation by the somoli community (suprise, those haven't been made public)
Jimmy Crack Corn

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If all you people who don't even live in Rochester would just stay out of the Rochester discussions, then the world would be a better place. All of our communities are better off for having Somali people. Get to know a few of these courageous individuals (especially the women) and you might understand a little bit about the war, abuse and torture they experienced in their country, from the time they were children. They came here to seek a better life for their children, and now they are Americans. You hate them, then it is YOU who hate america.
Jimmy Crack Corn

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Ok, not sure why it says Denver. I'm from Rochester.
Tur

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white pride wrote:
Do we live in Africa or America?
If the Somalis would just stay in there
own country America would be a much
better place.
And if you had a litel brain and be more human you would think befor you say something stupid like that. Becouse of idiots like you usa has bad reputation.
a real american

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A Proud American wrote:
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We live in America.
If you don't like the Somali's, why don't you go back to wherever your family came from and let Americans live in peace?
Hey somolian...the American you are telling to go back to his home country....

Might be an American serviceman or a veteran.

Or, absolutly, positivly, his ancestors have fought or died in wars to establish and preserve our American rights.

...somolian...the rights you are here enjoying!!! The welfare you are living on, you are recieving just because you somololians are so primitive, and barbaric, that even you somolians won't live in your own country. You did nothing to deserve to be in America....somolians have done nothing to deserve these rights. Yet here you savages are constantly badmouthing us Americans and forcing your primitive 1st century freaky habits on us.

Big business brought you here to lower our wages. Americans don't want you in America.

Don't you get it??? Ungrateful, insulting, foul mouthed, smelly somolians.
JLJ

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white pride wrote:
Do we live in Africa or America?
If the Somalis would just stay in there
own country America would be a much
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AMEN
JLJ

Rochester, MN

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WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE WORK, HOW DO THEY MAKE A LIVING. R THEY LIVING OFF OF OUR SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY. WHY DO THEY DRIVE NEW SUV'S WHEN ME AND MY CHILDREN HAVE HAD TO BUST OUR BUTTS ALL OUR LIVES AND HAVE NEVER EVER HAD A NEW CAR OR NEVER HAD ANYBODY PAY OUR RENT FOR US. THAT IS THE MAIN REASON FOR THE CONFLICT. PEOPLE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THE FREELOADERS. IF THEY COME HERE TO WORK AND WORK LIKE WE DO AND MAKE THEIR OWN WAY, I GUARANTEE YOU THEY EITHER WON'T STAY OR THEY WILL EARN RESPECT UNTIL THEN EXPECT PROBLEMS
on the front lines

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Monk wrote:
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Why do you hate the world?
Somali people are disgusting in every sense of the word, I work with them, they live in filth, toss garbage on the ground anywhere they get a chance, live for 7yrs on sec. 8, or more (fact)
paying 50 dlrs for rent a month, and never working. Job skills, hah! ever see them working? The unemployement rate for somalis is double ours or more, always has been. They should be sent home!!! They have personally ruined neighborhoods here in Roch, drove up crime rate (and traffic acc., they cant drive for crap) they create thier own little communities that divide our great nation. Bring me your tired, your hungry your huddled masses,,,,, not leeching, disrespectful to the people who are trying to help them, pieces of crap! They crap in trash cans where I work, all the time, urinate in the hallways of thier own bldgs, bring drug traffic,
and nightly police calls, wasting our money!
by the way, the man in the alley? that fight was started when a somali idiot hit a WHITE man in the head with a cue ball and called him ethnic slurrs. THE FIRST MURDER OF 2009 WAS TWO SOMALI PUNKS SHOT A WHITE MAN AND THEN THREW HIM OUT HI OWN WINDOW! LETS COME TOGETHER AND RID US OF THIS PEST!
on the front lines

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JLJ wrote:
WHERE DO THESE PEOPLE WORK, HOW DO THEY MAKE A LIVING. R THEY LIVING OFF OF OUR SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY. WHY DO THEY DRIVE NEW SUV'S WHEN ME AND MY CHILDREN HAVE HAD TO BUST OUR BUTTS ALL OUR LIVES AND HAVE NEVER EVER HAD A NEW CAR OR NEVER HAD ANYBODY PAY OUR RENT FOR US. THAT IS THE MAIN REASON FOR THE CONFLICT. PEOPLE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF THE FREELOADERS. IF THEY COME HERE TO WORK AND WORK LIKE WE DO AND MAKE THEIR OWN WAY, I GUARANTEE YOU THEY EITHER WON'T STAY OR THEY WILL EARN RESPECT UNTIL THEN EXPECT PROBLEMS
In Olmstead county, the section 8 program is run by the county, the have second rate inspectors that actually come out yearly and make the complex owners pay to fix the stuff the resident broke within 30 days, or the county will abate the rent payment. What blew my mind is the name on deposit checks and other checks I have seen is "catholic charity of winona", really, catholics? Sponsoring muslims? weird. It's true,Somalis also get a vehicle allowence of 7000. and also enjoy tax exempt status for a period of time, the more cildren they have, the sweeter the pie, soooo, every nine months expect to see another one come poppin out. One of the very few things that make me laugh about them is, despite thier new cars that I cant afford, every single one of them is crashed ao dented up in some way, whats that tell you? oh yeah, and they carry the garbage to the dumspter 50ft away, on the hood of that same brand new car. I have heard them demand that they must have a washer and dryer IN the apt, other working people at this complex have to share a common laundry room, how frekin terrible huh? I try to let it go, try to rise above, f that, I grew up in s IL outside STL mo. my home town is plagued with racial strife, but you know, I dont hate black people, nor do I hate blindly, but I do hate, Im sick of complaining, but doin nothin, this is my voice, and this is AMERICA. land that I love.
on the front lines

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a real american wrote:
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Hey somolian...the American you are telling to go back to his home country....
Might be an American serviceman or a veteran.
Or, absolutly, positivly, his ancestors have fought or died in wars to establish and preserve our American rights.
...somolian...the rights you are here enjoying!!! The welfare you are living on, you are recieving just because you somololians are so primitive, and barbaric, that even you somolians won't live in your own country. You did nothing to deserve to be in America....somolians have done nothing to deserve these rights. Yet here you savages are constantly badmouthing us Americans and forcing your primitive 1st century freaky habits on us.
Big business brought you here to lower our wages. Americans don't want you in America.
Don't you get it??? Ungrateful, insulting, foul mouthed, smelly somolians.
AMEN, If my country comes under attack, as it has, if my country is invaded, like somalia. I dont leave, I fight back, I wouldnt dream of abandoning my country. Have some damn pride.
honor

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Somalis need to go back to their own disgusting country--We don't want them here

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