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Hate crimes or just vicious crimes?

If these kids actually committed this crime, it appears they took a break from school to hold up a convenience store ... and shoot the clerk while they were at it.

Another reminder of the importance of having armed police officers in our schools, unfortunately.

Something else bothers me about this, and it's been nagging at me for a while.

The victim here was a young man named Waqar Gilani.

We had another story today about the trial of a man accused of fatally shooting a store clerk in Greensboro in 2006. In that case, the victim's name was Satwinder Singh.

Am I just imagining that the victims in these crimes are very often Asian?

Mohammed "Mike" Ali in the Red Mike's murder of a year ago.

Phi Nguyen and Tam Nguyen at the McConnell Road Mini-Mart in 2005.

In Macon, Ga., Asian-American business owners held a rally earlier this year in response to convenience-store murders.

I hope a clerk's ethnic identity doesn't make it easier for a robber to pull the trigger.

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Posted by Doug Clark on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 5:32 pm

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Dogwood

November 20, 2009 - 2:27 pm EST

Three handsome Southwest High School students did skip classes. Instead of school lunch, they may have attempted to kill a store clerk. Guilford BOE may need to take pause and consider that some children are erratic and dangerous. I support Tasers. It is sad society has bred miscreants and I would rather a see better world.