03-24-2018, 10:06 PM
(03-24-2018, 04:42 AM)Duchess Wrote: I don't think a black or brown person would have been referred to as a "challenged young man". I believe different adjectives would have been used to describe him and none as harmless as challenged. My opinion is he would have been described as a monster and worse.
I think it depends on the mindset of whomever is doing the describing.
I did see that Chief Manley is taking a lot of heat for describing the bomber as a "challenged young man" and not a "terrorist".
That seems to happen a lot in this kinds of cases. Even when it's not clear if the motive was politically, religiously, or racially based, a lot of people tend to consider crimes that terrorize regions or communities as hate crimes and/or terrorism. But, law enforcement's official definitions are more narrow.
Investigators are still looking into what motivated Conditt, but the recording he left on his cell phone shows that he was a 'sick individual,' according to US Rep. Michael McCaul.
McCaul has apparently heard the videotaped confession and told the press that Conditt referred to himself as a psychopath since childhood and that the killer also said he didn't feel any remorse.