Trayvon Martin shooter put photo of OSU hate crime on his website

[RandySF]

George Zimmerman is either ignorant or supports hate crimes, said some at Ohio State University who had seen or heard about his website yesterday.

They reached those conclusions because of a photo on his fundraising website of the words Long Live Zimmerman that were spray-painted on a wall of OSU’s black cultural center on Thursday.

“It’s completely insensitive. It’s downright cold,” said Dieter Smiley, a 20-year-old industrial and systems engineering student at Ohio State. “I don’t know if he is ignorant or malicious, but there is no excuse for his actions either way.”



http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/04/11/shooters-use-of-picture-criticized.html

[robinlynne]

1. painting on a wall is not a hate crime. This doesn't make sense.

[RandySF]

3. Oh yes it is.

If you paint a swastika on a synagogue or Jewish community center, you can be charged in many states with a hate crime. The graffiti in question was written on an African American community center in Ohio.

[robinlynne]

4. That's true. I thought it was written on a university campus.

[FarPoint]

2. He is all the above.

Yet it brings the realization that racism is very much a presence in American .