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Police: Family attacked for being in "wrong neighborhood"

Wrong neighbor hood? Well this must be a case of racism... lets read.

At the corner of Plank Road and Scenic Highway in Baton Rouge sits a Chevron gas station. It's off I-110 near Memorial Stadium. A family stopped there to get gas Sunday around 10 p.m.

Stubbs said a man wearing a pink shirt was in line trying to pay for gas when Donald Dickerson, 41, started making fun of him, leading to an argument. "The defendant (Dickerson) approached the white male victim," the police report stated. It went on to read, "the defendant told him he was in the wrong neighborhood and he was not going to make it out." The victim said that's when he "was punched and knocked to the ground."

Threatened and then assaulted, sounds pretty good so far.To speed things up the wife and daughter were also punched by two other subjects and the mother and father were knocked unconscious. Dad had his eye socket broken and a broken nose. One person was arrested and the other two were cited on scene. In other words given a ticket for assault. Sounds pretty good for hate crime right. One problem for the Baton Rouge police, the victim was white and the offenders were black, soooooo,

As to whether this falls under a hate crime, police said early reports show it does not meet the statute but remains under investigation.

Now personally, I think hate crime laws are very bad. They are Thought crimes, and banning thought even this abhorrent one is not what we are about. The reason behind the assault only matters for if it was in defense. In other words guy takes a swing at someone and receives a beat down for his troubles, thats on him. No harm no foul. However, you just whip someone's ass for a verbal argument? That's on you and you go to Jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.00. I believe in the law, but if you are going to create some idiot law such as this, it needs to be administered equally. To everyone, not just white on minority. Oh, and as to the headline. If this had been the other way around it would have been the lead story on all the morning shows. Since it wasn't, nary a peep.