Police: Iowa woman said she ran over 14 year old girl because she was Mexican

I don't know whether you're attempting to trivialize another white racist crime, but you do trivialize it by equating gun deaths with a deliberate act of assault by automobile. The latter is an intentional hate crime, regardless of whether or not the victim was killed, and poses a special threat to social stability. If the gun deaths resulted from racially motivated assaults, that would be comparable.

 

Who was banned? Barros?

 

when did he name call?

I feel like that's a mischaracterization if nothing else. I saw that person as being nothing but civil.

 

Before the article was updated

"A Des Moines woman smoked methamphetamine hours before intentionally hitting a 14-year-old central Iowa girl with her SUV this month, according to court documents"


"Venema said at Friday's news conference that there's no evidence at this time to indicate Franklin's decision to hit the girl was premeditated."

After:

"Franklin faces an attempted murder charge and a felony hate crime charge on top of a number of other charges from a racially-charged incident at a Conoco gas station police were called to not long after the teen was hit"

"West Des Moines police were called to the Conoco at 5:15 p.m. for a woman creating a disturbance and using racial slurs, court records show."

"According to the police report, Franklin was seen placing an ice cream cone in her pocket and eating a bag of chips she had not purchased. She asked an employee for $30 worth of gas and a bottle of liquor.

The employee told police she attempted to take the bottle from him and began calling him and other customers racial slurs after he questioned her about the other items. She also pushed items on the counter at the employee"



So, an off her face meth head runs over a girl, 30 minutes later tries to steal a bottle of liquor from a gas station

And this is everones go to chic as an example for racial tensions in America? Oi vey

Or maybe meth head passed out while driving, hit someone on the footpath, later when arrested by cops went on full meth head rant

You know how this is going to go in the courts

 

Jeezus, only an American would give me that counter argument

You saw the part that says 39,000 right?

 

He wasn't very nice to a few people.
Anyway not to worry it's out of our control now.

 

They were relatively minor name callings, thibgs along the lines of stupid, ignorant, racist, etc. Don't recall bad language. But I think it was probably the frequency used them, and the anger he seemed to be using them with. Just my 2 cents. I'm new here, but already know enough that I won't miss him.

 

I don't know the story well enough to know what's bring reported as truth and what's now just bs, but I do agree with you that racism and hate crimes are the definite go to in these types on instances.

 

Apples and oranges.

 

Thank you vanilla for looking into the details and scrutinizing these events. The courts will, or her lawyer will probably get her in rehab, show that she is getting help for her problem. Some charges will be dropped and attributed to her illness. Addiction is considered an illness. Some Left wing agree with this and so do some right wing agree with this. What she did when under the influence of something is sympathized with by some, blamed on the illness and not fully the person. Diminished capacity. One of two things will happen due to the level of media coverage.

1. She will go to prison, but it will not be as heavy a sentence as some are now gunning for.

If that happens It will be used as evidence of white privilege narrative by some should that happen, and the sympathetic ones who could be left or right any ethnicity will be told they are racist.

2. An example will be made of her and she will get the maximum possible sentence.

If that happens the public in general will not care that she has an illness from the left and right side.

In California for example, vehicular manslaughter is a misdemeanour and the sentence for this is as low as 0 time. she didn’t kill the girl. I imagine the sentence for this particular crime will be light, but with other charges it will added on it could add up. It is simply a dui and fleeing the scene with aggravated circumstance.

Sentences for vehicular manslaughter by state.
https://www.madd.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Vehicular-Homicide.pdf

She will be charged with DUI and fleeing the scene in this case, which will be a pretty light sentence. Her fines will be heftier since she left the scene. She will have her licence to drive suspended. This will be considered aggravated circumstance, which could enhance her sentence.

 

Maybe Steve King was dressed up like a woman so he could run over some Muslim kids? I think that's the way these white nationalist surfs develop fantasies about other people.

 

Can always count on you for the least batshit crazy reply in a thread

 

Why don't you ever cite some news articles from your own country? If you truly live in Australia, one would think you could share some Australia stuff on our Australia thread? In our country, it seems these white nationalists have been awakened by a very racist Republican Party.

 

The woman was on meth-head rampage . Pure rage , reptillian mind . If she is charged with a hate crime ... well , this may carry prison sentence . A man in Iowa was just convicted of a hate crime for stealing from a church its gay (rainbow) flag and burning it (unsafely) in public - got a sentence of 17 years in prison , eligible for parole in 3

 

This just tells me that the town they live in is just full of drug addicted people who are anti diversity behaved idiots.
Anti Diversity behaviour is part of hate crimes.

 

Hang on VG already does this. As both VG and i are australian we don't appreciate to be told only to post in our country's board.

 

i would think attempted murder would carry a prison sentence whether they call it a hate crime or not.

i don't see the word "only" anywhere in his post.

 

Yes, well setting anything on fire is dangerous in public.

Plenty of American flags have been set afire in public places with a large number of people standing around, trees near by. This is dangerous too.
Re the meth head.... Yes, . True. If her lawyer is even moderately good, she will only get charged with a DUI and fleeing the scene, in the end I believe, unless they try to make an example of her. I don’t think the attempted murder charge will stand because she was not in her right mind.

Off topic here ... but today I was reading and I was watching this video on China, if you run over someone there they back up and run over them again. Make sure the one they hit is dead, because if they are just injured, the one who hit the person will have to pay a lot of money for their care, but if they kill them they only have to pay funeral cost. Not sure how true that is. New sources tend to lie, slant things.

 

Sometimes a meth-head man comes to visit me , and when his thoughts turn to hate his face turns demonic . His nose
appears to become broken and then hooked like a vulture beak . Also , his truck is a wreck from the many things it has
mindlessly , weirdly run into . Pure hate ? Meth is a war drug .

 

Hello from Iowa

Just reported : There was an earlier hit-and-run in the city that day , and the woman's SUV has been identified via security camera .
A 12-year-old boy received injuries - African-American .