Symone Sanders: Chicago Blacks Torturing White ‘Not a Hate Crime’

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SANDERS: "So, first I want to say, this is absolutely sickening. It's -- it's unfathomable that so much hate and anger can fill up a person where they go out and they think that this is OK. And then it was stupid to do it on a Facebook live. But that's another story. So this is absolutely sickening. But I'm going to say something that's probably not very popular. We can't callously go about classifying things of the hate crime. Motive here matters. So, was this for hate of Donald Trump, the President-elect? Because I think -- was this for pure hate of white people? That matters. Because if we start going around and anytime someone says something or does something really egregious, really bad in sickening of this instance and connection with the president-elect or Donald Trump, or even President Obama for that matter, because of their political leanings, that's slippery territory. That is not a hate crime. Hate crimes are because of a person's racial ethnicity, their religion, their gender, a disability. It isn't your political leanings, because someone doesn't like your political leanings --"
LEMON: "OK."
SANDERS: "-- and they do something bad to you, that is not a hate crime."