Flatbusher, when the first Gulf War broke out the chevruta of a friend of mine received a frantic call from his mother. After she calmed down she very matter-of-factly told him that his brother was robbed at gunpoint.
Charlie, what is the difference except to the police who have to have a motive before they can try to solve it, the ADA who has to decide whether or not to ask for a sentence a hate crime and the judge who has to decide whether or not to so sentence them? If c”v they had been injured they would have been just as injured as if they had been targeted as Jews.