The Other McCain brings us a disturbing story from California. (Another disturbing story from California.) Crazy People Are Dangerous (Special California Hate Crimes Edition)
In April 2021, the president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce was assaulted on the streets by a man who yelled, “F–k you Chinatown! F–k you Chinaman!” A week later, 25-year-old James Lee Ramsey was charged with felony assault and a hate crime against Carl Chan, and the case was scheduled for trial in August 2021.
He got a plea deal, but know a bunch of "activists" want the charges dismissed, because you can't imprison a black man for a hate crime. Or something.
It is not mercy to let crazy people run around the streets attacking innocent strangers, and certainly it is not justice. It is folly to permit our sympathy for those afflicted with mental illness to override the need to protect public safety, which is the first duty of any government.
RTWT.
We really need to find a better way of dealing with mental illness than turning the free to attack people, or to become homeless and die ont the streets.
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