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[quote=Anonymous]I consider myself to be pretty sensitive to issues of racism.  But I think it is important to be careful about attributing the crime to racial hatred before we know more.

First, there is a better and more obvious motive: sex.  Either that he wanted to kill sex workers due to his internal sexual conflict, or perhaps he had a dispute with them arising from an encounter there.

Second, there is another important issue: that these women may have been victims of sex trafficking. And if so, they are the victims of two crimes and that there is another set of criminals who should be brought to justice.  It's going to be  tough if we mistakenly turn the human traffickers into the victims of a hate crime.

If it turns out that the motive isn't racial, we will have done an injustice by diverting attention away from other important issues, and it will be used to discredit future allegations of hate crimes.  We still hear about the Duke Lacrosse scandal after fifteen years, because the prosecutor jumped the gun and the public wasn't sufficiently skeptical.[/quote]

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