A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa’s state Capitol is now being charged with a hate crime.
A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa’s state Capitol is now being charged with a hate crime.
That’s not really how precedent works. Not choosing to charge him with a hate crime would be a matter of prosecutorial discretion, and wouldn’t affect other prosecutors’ charging decisions. You better believe if you took a shit on whatever jeebus monument they have at the Mississippi Capitol they’d put you under the jail with every imaginable charge.