Hate Crimes-OKLAHOMA
1. The total population covered: 286,010,550
The total number of agencies submitting reports: 1,944
The total number of incidents reported: 6,222
2. Oklahoma
Ø Covered under state law: Bias-Motivated Violence and Intimidation. Civil actions such as race, religion, ethnicity, and disability. Also, institutional Vandalism and Data Collection.
Ø Covers damage to real or person property of another because of that person's race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, or disability.
Ø Prohibits assault, battery, or threats toward another because of that person's race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, or disability. Also covers damage to property of another because of that person's race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, or disability.
Ø Covers willful injury to any house of worship or any part thereof, or property therein.
Ø Not covered under state law: Civil actions such as sexual Orientation and gender. Also, Training for Law Enforcement Personnel.
3. Oklahoma
It is unlawful to harass, threaten, intimidate, or assault a person based on race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, or disability. It is also unlawful to destroy or vandalize any real or personal property of a person based on the above reasons. Institutional vandalism is unlawful and is considered a felony in this state. Institutional vandalism means defacing items like books, buildings, furniture, or even instruments. Also, The Oklahoma State Bureau must report hate crimes and develop agencies that report the hate crimes. Law enforcement training for hate crimes is not required for policemen.
Oklahoma defines hate crimes as: to maliciously harass, threaten, or intimidate based on someone’s race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, or disability. Also maliciously destroying, defacing, damaging, or vandalizing any real or personal item of someone’s because of on race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, or disability.
4. HATE CRIME SUSPECTED AFTER GAY MAN BURNED BY FIREBOMBING IN OKLAHOMA
A guy name Jon Ferguson woke up on a Saturday morning to his car being vandalized by to guys that were homophobic. Both guys were in the process of lighting his car on fire and before Jon could run back into his house to safety he had already suffered burns. When he had arrived at the hospital the doctors told him he suffered first and second degree burns. He was also told that fag was spray painted on his car. Jon told the police that he didn’t get a good look at the guys because they had masks on and they had run off. The police did not take this incident as a hate crime because sexual orientation is not covered under the hate crimes law and Oklahoma does not fully accept the LGBT community. So the police reported the incident as arson and they are still looking into the incident, even though they still have not found the perpetrators. The victim is thinking about resuming his life as a heterosexual male instead of a homosexual, in order to avoid hate crimes because he believes the Oklahoma law enforcement will not protect him.
5. WHITE VICTIMIZATION IN AMERICA (MEDIA)
A. The video explains how current president Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act. Conceived as a response to the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., the measure expands the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
B. In the video a white couple was murdered in Knoxville, Tennessee by five blacks. The crime was malicious and hateful. Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom (the couple) were kidnapped, tortured/ rapped and later killed. Channon was only 21 and Christopher was only 23 at the time of their death. They were rapped and dumped Newsom’s body at the railroad tracks. They also left his body in flames at the tracks. After raping and torturing Christian, they stuffed her body in a trash can. They five people involved in were found guilty in the killing of the couple. Eric Boyd, Letalvis Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, George Thomas, and Vanessa Coleman were the five defendants in the case. Eric Body was found guilty of being an accessory in the murders and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Letalvis Cobbins (26) was found guilty: Sentenced to life without parole for first-degree murder and rape in August 2009. Lemaricus Davidson (28) was found guilty: Sentenced to death by lethal injection for first-degree murder and rape in October 2009. George Thomas (26) found guilty: Sentenced to life without parole for first-degree murder and rape in December 2009. Vanessa Coleman (21) Not guilty of first-degree murder charges. Found guilty of facilitation in the death and rapes of Channon Christian; not guilty for any charges involving Chris Newsom in May 2010.
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This video is dedicated to the memory of Trayvon Martin and about recognizing that hate still exists in our society. This video is another way of exposing that there was no justice for Trayvon and how our justice system is screwed up. There is a law for hate crime but how does the justice system define a hate crime? Does it matter which race commits the crime to be considered hate?
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