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The FBI is investigating a white South Carolina couple for racial discrimination after they set a cross on fire in their yard facing toward their Black neighbors’ home.
Here’s the definition of terrorism (not US law, but I’m guessing it’s similar):
terrorism, the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective.
This doesn’t appear to match that definition, this just seems to target one neighbor, so it’s a hate crime.
I don’t see any political ends here, nor do I see a broad climate of fear. It could be terrorism if they were part of a larger group that did this all at the same time, but I see no evidence of that.
Here’s the definition of terrorism (not US law, but I’m guessing it’s similar):
This doesn’t appear to match that definition, this just seems to target one neighbor, so it’s a hate crime.
I don’t see any political ends here, nor do I see a broad climate of fear. It could be terrorism if they were part of a larger group that did this all at the same time, but I see no evidence of that.