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The 57 Bus Case

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The 57 Bus takes place in Oakland, California where a black teenager named Richard burned an innocent teen because his friends thought it would be a funny joke to pull on someone they didn't even know. The victim was Sasha Fleischman who was agender (gender nonconforming). Richard and Sasha's lives are changed for forever . My inquiry question is can someone's sexual orientation be considered a hate crime in court? Body 1 When describing the incident Richard says “I don’t have a problem with homosexual’s I have friends that’s homosexuals and we never had problems so I don’t look at you wrong becausee of your sexualitie”, (P.185) with this quote, Richard is pointing out that he isn't homophobic and his reason for burning them wasn’t

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