True story. William was a Skinhead. Although not the brightest of choices William had commited no crimes prior to this incedent in his 17 years of life. In fact william had a history of volunteerism and straight A grades before becoming politicaly involved in things that were politically incorrect.
Then one drunken night William and his neo-nazi buddies Decided to shoplift a case of beer from their local supermarket. William had just purchased his first firearm the night previously, a .22 caliber pistol.
William waited in the car as his neo buddies ran out of the store with a case of beer but before reaching the vehicle a group of young men 8 in total chased and tackled the small beer theiving group. A fight insued in the parking lot as the 8 young men attacked, kicked and punched the younger group of two Nazi kids. William jumped out of the vehicle and fired his pistol into the air, the group attacking fled and william and his group fled the scene. The next day William turned himself and his firearm over to the police.
It turns out the 8 men attacking his friends turned out to be plain clothed security. 7 of the 8 security forces were minoritys.
William had claimed that he could not see the people attacking his friends as it was dark and he was at some distance from the altercation. William also argued that he was not attemting to hurt anybody and was just trying to scare the guys attacking his friends.
Williams proceedings lasted for 7 months by which time he had turned 18 years old. His official charges were accesory to theft and discharging a firearm within city limits. Just after williams 18th birthday the new District Attourney reveiwed his case and decided to persue it as a hate crime do to the fact that William had a Swastika on his jacket and that the victoms were minoritys.
Although William could not see the race of the assailants he was found guilty for being politically incorrect. William was looking at 3 months in jail and 5 years probation before the hate crime charges piled on. Once the DA took the case he ended up getting 5 years the absolute maximum plus a mandatory 2 years on top of that for it being a hate crime. 7 years with no chance of parole because he was on the wrong side of politically correct thinking back in 1998.
The charges against the security for the assault of two minors were dropped.
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