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Home Front: WoT
Hate Crime Charges in Stabbing of a Cabdriver
2010-08-31
This is filed as non-WoT, since it's increasingly clear that Mr. Enright is nuts.
A film student arrested in the slashing of a Muslim taxi driver in Manhattan last week was indicted on Monday on charges of second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault as hate crimes.

The student, Michael Enright, 21, was not in Manhattan Criminal Court during the brief hearing; James Zaleta, an assistant district attorney, informed his lawyer, Lawrence M. Fisher, that Mr. Enright had been indicted. The indictment is expected to be unsealed on Sept. 22.
Enright is singing to the wall over at Bellevue right now ...
Mr. Enright had recently been embedded with a Marine unit in Afghanistan and was working on a documentary about it. He had also volunteered for a nonprofit group whose mission included fostering understanding among religions and cultures, veterans and civilians.
So he wasn't a tea party activist, much to the dismay of the Progressive community and the MFM ...
The taxi driver, Ahmed H. Sharif, 44, said Mr. Enright had first made small talk with him. After he told Mr. Enright that he was Muslim, Mr. Sharif said, Mr. Enright responded with an Arabic greeting, silence and then told him, "This is the checkpoint" and "I have to bring you down."

Mr. Enright then slashed Mr. Sharif in the throat, face and arms, prosecutors said.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  Does this mean that the "kill whitey" teens at the Iowa state fair will also be charged with hate crimes? Or is hunting down, beating, and screaming racial epitaphs insufficient for probable cause?
Posted by: anymouse   2010-08-31 19:03  

#4  It is so hard being a "MSM Journalist?" these days.

It's because they're like flat worms living in a two dimensional world trying to perceive a three dimensional object that intrudes upon their concept of reality.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-08-31 10:26  

#3  Enright doesn't fit the radical left-wing media meme: He was in favor of the Manhattan Murder Victory Mosque. The MSM just couldn't find a white right wing extremist in this story. It is so hard being a "MSM Journalist?" these days. People just aren't accepting the lies anymore. It used to be so easy.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-08-31 10:12  

#2  He had also volunteered for a nonprofit group whose mission included fostering understanding among religions and cultures, veterans and civilians.

Must have been disappointed.
Posted by: gorb   2010-08-31 10:01  

#1  Thought Enright was drunk at the time. The term "hate crime" has become so politicized. Sometimes "hate crime" is used and sometimes it is not--use seems to be somewhat whimsical depending on the politics of the time. We had a heinous crime in Knoxville where 4 African-Americans thugs; some with a previous record, both raped and murdered a young white couple. The young man was raped, killed and set on fire. The young girl was raped, tortured and stuffed in a trash can and left to die. By all measures it should have been a hate crime. It was not prosecuted as such--probably just not to stir up racial tensions. There was a time when murder, attempted murder, and assault charges were sufficient.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-08-31 09:20  

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