Yesterday the news broke of an absolutely vicious hate crime in Chicago. Deanna covered the brutal attack here. To recap, a special needs young man was kidnapped by four black teens. They held him captive for nearly 48 hours and filmed his torture on Facebook Live.

The original video is taken down but many others have captured the evil inflicted upon this traumatized young man. Was this a hate crime? No Doubt About It.

However, the media wants us to believe otherwise. Take a look via Powerline at the AP’s original reporting on the story. Key words in the original story include beating, alleged incident, suspects… all pretty innocuous. Well, within a couple of hours Powerline reported that the AP amended their story.

While police officials did not confirm the races of the suspects or victim, video from Chicago media outlets appeared to show someone off-camera using profanities about “white people” and President-elect Donald Trump. The victim appeared to be white, while others shown in the video appeared to be black.

However, the AP has further amended their story. The entire quote above was quietly replaced with THIS tame little sentence.

Off-camera, people can be heard using profanities about “white people” and Trump. At least one woman is shown in the video.

The AP isn’t the only culprit. Althouse has links to other media sources who would rather call this viciousness a beating instead of what it is. She notes that the media does mention its racially charged but none specify who attacked whom nor are they honest about the fact that the victim was tortured. But that hasn’t stopped the other apologists from stepping up. Last night on CNN, Don Lemon had this to say:

https://twitter.com/MisterMetokur/status/816962400201146368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

OMG!! SERIOUSLY? @donlemon "BAD HOME TRAINING" Excuses for TEENS 18yr olds that should know right from wrong. This was wrong and evil! https://t.co/7a2RE1MyS9

— Grace Vasquez (@itsYourGrace) January 5, 2017

Yes it was wrong and definitely EVIL. But Lemon evidently doesn’t care. Meanwhile one of his panelists, Symone Sanders, knows EXACTLY who the culprit is. President-Elect Donald Trump.

Then again, Sanders is someone who thinks no white people should be in the Democrat party…and CNN finds her credible?? Activist Shaun King isn’t any better.

https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/816993173704769536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

“assault??!!” Are. You. Kidding. Me. Yes indeed, the vicious torture of a special needs young man who will be forever traumatized by the evil perpetrated on him? No biggie according to King, who instead chose to whine about the fact that George Zimmerman nor the officers who killed Eric Garner AREN’T in jail.

This is bad, dude. As someone who is on the same side as you in promoting equality…you doing this is setting the movement back

— Stick2Sports (@AltNickRad) January 5, 2017

King’s response shows he doesn’t care. Instead he’d rather sugar coat what happened in order to further his personal narrative of “its everyone else’s fault, not ours.”

Here’s the deal, while the media, pundits (I use the term loosely) and even the Chicago PD tap dance around calling this a hate crime, the fact remains clear. This was a hate crime. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

a crime, usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual’s national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability. [Emphasis added]

Symone Sanders, Shaun King and the media would have us believe this isn’t a hate crime because political leanings against Trump shouldn’t be considered as such.

RIGHT! And the anti-trump and anti-white shouting was a way to hide their TRUE anti-special-needs feelings from the public?

— Politically agnostic (@joeleyare) January 5, 2017

The facts are this: Those criminals targeted a special needs young man, they viciously tortured him him, screamed their hatred of whites and Trump, gleefully posted at least two videos on Facebook of their torture, and showed zero remorse from beginning to end. That, in a nutshell ladies and gentlemen, is a hate crime. It is shameful beyond belief that the media is working hard to whitewash this into something less heinous and vicious than it is.