Obama condemns "despicable" Facebook Live hate crime
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President Barack Obama has described the torture of a mentally disabled man in Chicago, streamed on Facebook Live, as a "despicable" hate crime.
The president said that while he did not believe US race relations had worsened, public exposure to race crimes had grown in the digital age.
He said the video encapsulated problems that have existed for some time.
Three teenagers and a woman, 24, are due in court on Friday accused of aggravated battery with a weapon.
Jordan Hill, Brittany Covington and Tesfaye Cooper, all 18, and Tanishia Covington are also accused of aggravated unlawful restraint.
In the video, the assailants can be heard making derogatory statements against white people and Donald Trump.
"What we have seen as surfacing, I think, are a lot of problems that have been there a long time," President Obama told CBS Chicago.
"Whether it's tensions between police and communities, hate crimes of the despicable sort that has just now recently surfaced on Facebook."
The president said that while the Chicago incident was grounds for serious concern, he remained optimistic about the long-term state of US race relations.
"The good news is that the next generation that's coming behind us… have smarter, better, more thoughtful attitudes about race," he said.
I guess race relations in America really hit bottom low. And it's not the end of Trump's term. Rest in peace to the poor man and jail to the perpetrators.
I guess race relations in America really hit bottom low. And it's not the end of Trump's term. Rest in peace to the poor man and jail to the perpetrators.
The quote made it seem like he didn't, but yeah I didn't read that in-depth. This news comes in all the time. People with different amounts of melatonin in their skin coming for each other. Still, it makes this sound only a little less horrible.