Page 2 - Hate Charge News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Standard. and the law says if the gunman was just partially motivated by a bias against a person due to their race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, age or sexual orientation or gender identity, then a hate charge can be brought. now, it seems almost intuitive given the location of this mass shooting that it feels like a bias motivated crime. how many bars and clubs are there in colorado and why did the gunman choose this one? it feels they were comfortable enough they had enough evidence that it was a bias motivated charge and bring the charge very quickly. >> mark, how do the hate crimes ...

The hate charge together all in one charge. eric: and what do you look at -- what i'm of evidence can you use in sorry to interrupt, but you've got that alleged 106-page manifesto, his writings and this sort of thing. can you use some of that as evidence as well as whatever he's saying to arresting officers now? >> yes. i mean, all the evidence that we have obtained and that we're going to obtain can potentially be used as evidence in regard to those charges. like you said, we have this man pesto, we have -- manifesto, we have other pieces of evidence that every gotten along the way in the pas...

May have, whoever else may have been behind this attack certainly is brought to justice. >> cedric, the questions are being raised whether this would raise, rise to the level of a hate crime. help us understand if you would, the definition of what it means to be a hate crime, and in your view, whether this would fit within that category. >> caller: well, certainly those in the legal community are going to take a very strong look at the law in terms of what it states, and if this crime meets the elements of that law, where an attack against a person or individual or group of people as it result...

>> given there's now being charged i'm not going to say more about it. >> ron mott out in chicago, what do we know two days later. >> there's some racial component to the stories. one young white man is the victim. mental capacity that's why they filed hate charge because the victim knows one of the defendant, they are friends. they went to school together. this started on saturday fight, the two were meeting up, the victim told his parents he was going to have a overnight with the friend. he slept in the van. his family was expecting him home on sunday, they got in touch with police and filed...