Soldier's Jeep Vandalized

[chrisb]

Guys, some lowlife destroyed an Iraq veteran's Jeep at DBU (Dallas Baptist University). I have written up a post about it on my blog. They cut up and painted the entire thing including spraying "Soldiers are Murderers" on the hood.

http://gunsandguts.blogspot.com/2008/10 ... t-dbu.html

A lot of people are going to help put it back together, and the 4x4 industry is mobilizing to upgrade it significantly for him. The soldier, Viktor Whitlow, has a Paypal account set up for donations.

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/websc ... 4db31b77c2

Let's get together and help out this man who has given so much to our country, only to come back and have this happen to him.

[Catbird]

From the video at the link:

"Dallas police do not consider this a hate crime..."

If this isn't a "hate crime" then there's no such thing.

[Aglifter]

AFAIK, TX doesn't have hate crimes. You can kill a man for burning a cross in your yard though, and we'll execute him for lynching you...

[308Mike]

From the video at the link:

"Dallas police do not consider this a hate crime..."

If this isn't a "hate crime" then there's no such thing.

It's not just that, but:

Dallas police said Whitlow's case is not considered a hate crime because military personnel cannot be members of a hate crime.

HUH????? I think they need to better explain that statement. Of course, it's VERY probable the reporter has it all screwed up.

[princewally]

I would assume that means that soldiers aren't in a protected class. In Minnesota, it's race/gender/religion/etc, to get the additional sentence.