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If I were a MAGA cap-wearing Trump supporter...


...I'd regard this guy as a hero.

In fact, I wonder if he's on Trump's payroll.

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I'm advocating neither.

But how do you know he needs help? Maybe he knew exactly what he was doing. Maybe he just didn't consider how it would turn out.

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Are you not distinguishing between an actual hate crime and something made to appear as a hate crime?

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There's a word for that. Hoax. He did it to get attention and further his career, no doubt.

Selfish motives, and he hurts people who are legitimately victims of hate crimes.

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No hate crime was committed. He implemented a plan to convince others that a hate crime had been committed. That the plan seems to be unraveling doesn't indicate a desire to commit suicide from the start. He thought he'd get away with it, and maybe propel his profile to a place higher than it had been.

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How do you orchestrate a hate crime against yourself?

If, it turns out that this was a hoax, surely it would be a case of orchestrating a fake hate crime rather than committing real one.

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Perhaps, although he still needs to face the consequences for wasting valuable police time. Chicago is already stretched thin with the high crime rate.

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