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Comments by "" (@charlesvan13) on "Emmett Till's family reflects on 100-year battle to pass anti-lynching bill | Nightline" video.
It doesn't make any sense to make a specific law. The crime is murder. If someone murdered someone, as a race hate, who cares if it was a lynching. It's still murder.
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And racially motivated murder would be prosecuted under federal civil rights laws. This is a PR stunt. "lynching" refers to an extrajudicial execution. Hate crimes are more broad than that.
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It's already illegal. Any lynching (these hasn't been on since 1981) would be prosecuted as murder and violation of federal civil rights laws.
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@ellafellaa9912 Only Jussie Smollet. Lynchings even died out mostly by 1950, with most years from then having none. The last lynching was in 1981.
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@davidwillis8623 Rand Paul objected to the bill because it trivialized the practice, buy including injuries such as scratches and bruises as "lynching". Of course most are going to vote for an empty virtue signal law. If Obama got his "equal pay act" out of committee then most senators would have voted for it. And it was a vacuous stunt, because the equal pay act was passed in 1963.
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@dijoyjoe A "hate crime" is more general than a lynching. "lynching" just means an extra-judicial execution. Whites got lynched. It's when an angry mob broke into the jail and took the suspect out and executed him. Rand Paul's objection is that this bill redefines "lynching" to be really minor attacks. Like Jussie Smollet's "lynching" was hiring to friends to attack him, and putting a string around his neck.
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