The jury verdict on Wednesday against David Jason Jenkins, 37, and Anthony Ray Jenkins, 20, of Harlan County stemmed from an April 2011 kidnapping of Kevin Pennington, 29, who managed to escape, according an indictment. The men planned to assault Pennington because of his sexual orientation. Although the government failed to convict the Kentucky men on hate crime charges this week, the Justice Department's top civil rights official, Thomas Perez, said prosecutors would not be discouraged from bringing other cases. Perez called the kidnapping a "vicious and criminal act" and said his department would vigorously investigate possible hate crimes.
In this article, The two men were not found guilty in this act. The two men kidnapped a single man, who was homosexual. The had two intentions with this man, in my opinion. One, to have sex with him or either hurt him whether it be verbally or physically. If these men would have carried out whatever vicious act they were about to do to this homosexual guy, it would have not been something Christ like. This i would definitely put in the category as a hate crime. A hate crime is a crime motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, typically one involving violence. And a crime is any type of action omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law. David Jason Jenkins and Anthony Ray Jenkins must have have kidnapped this man just because he was homosexual, according to the article. Hate crimes are going on all over the world. "Federal hate crimes law was expanded in 2009 to include a victim's perceived sexual orientation, gender or disability" yet people all over the world are being hated or treated badly because of race, sexual preferences, gender and other prejudice.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/25/justice/hate-crime-kentucky/index.html?iref=allsearch
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/25/justice/hate-crime-kentucky/index.html?iref=allsearch
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