Fucking excellent.
Ex-Obama adviser charged with hate crime over food cart rant
Former US diplomat Stuart Seldowitz has been arrested and is facing multiple charges after a video of him harassing a halal cart vendor in New York went viral.
The NYPD has charged Seldowitz with second-degree aggravated harassment, hate crime/stalking, stalking to cause fear, and stalking at place of employment, Documented reported. In the video, Seldowitz, who previously served as deputy director of the US Department of State’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs, is seen telling a man selling food: “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough.”
- Al Jazeera
if i were a former obama advisor, i would simply not commit a hate crime while knowingly being filmed
I just wouldn't commit one at all, but maybe that standard is too high to US officials.
This is how they really are behind closed doors. More disgusting is
appointed this goul knowing how he is.
served as deputy director of the US Department of State’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs
Lmfao, of course
which should in a just world be enough to get you charged with hate crimes alone
And here all the libs gave Trump shit over putting Kushner in charge. Turns out he was just another in a long line of extremely biased ghouls.
not in a position of power? Sure, reeducation, restorative justice.
Deputy director of the US Department of State’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs? A fucking brick.the united states is quickly approaching British MP levels of embarrassing
saw on twitter somewherer that they initially said there was nothing they could do because it was "free speech"
They wouldn't have done jack shit if the vendor filed a complaint without the video. And even then, it would be a low priority unless it went viral like this story has. Nothing lights a fire under a PD's ass like a social media frenzy.
pretty sure threatening to dox some person's relatives and subject them to torture is not ''free speech''
But then again, American version of Free Speech makes me more and more a fan of Hobbes and Rousseau
It's not clear, we must refer to the chart to find out whether this is hate speech:
If it were the comments alone, he couldn't have been arrested, but he literally harassed and stalked the guy.
General calls for ethnic violence and genocide cannot be criminalized in the US though, because of Brandenburg v Ohio in 1969; landmark decision where KKK leader Clarence Brandenburg called for genocide of black and Jewish people. Ohio criminally charged him, then came SCOTUS ruling "Brandenburg's rights had been violated by Ohio's statue" and "abstract advocacy of violence cannot be punished". Before 1969 free speech actually wasn't as absolute, but this has been the precedent ever since
That's allegedly how they responded when the Russian mission to the UN reported this same dude harassing their female staffers.
i think he tried to apologize by using the classic i have muslim friends line
There's no way that someone who goes out of their way to harass a total stranger minding his own business with this sort of unhinged verbal assault hasn't done it previously countless times to others. He was just caught on video this time. I really hope others come out and shatter his whole world.
Just saw that clip on Twitter. It's unsettling just how comfortable he is casually spewing vile insults to strangers.
Good riddance to him, a monster who delighted in the suffering of others.
How can you say this man hates Muslims when he advised one for 8 years?
This man should be shot an dumped in a pit of quick lime unironically
Oh what can't a drunk fella harass a random muslim man in private anymore? FOLKS, this is why I hate cell phones. Now a gent can't launch into an Islamophobic rant without busy bodies filming him.
how insane is it that some random freak harassing a halal cart guy ended up being a formerly important government official?
Given how many Muslims US government officials have murdered, I'm surprised more of them aren't caught on camera giving islamaphobic rants.
not a random freak , obamas adviser on foreign policy..
I love that the virality of this story is making the general public reassess Obama's foreign policy. Not that it was held in high regard anyway, but his failings here were overlooked even by his detractors (who tend to focus on his domestic policy).
