I wouldn't try and second guess my rationale,
@icowden. Far better to just read my posts and not try and infer things that aren't there.
I posted a news report up with a tagline that the murder was a "targeted" attack. This was verbatim what the report stated. Not my words. I immediately got leg-humper Matticus challenging those words as if they were mine.
Nor have I claimed the murder was a hate crime. I've linked to reports that the police are investigating the report as a possible hate crime.
I'm surprised at the fervour of a small handful of people who seen desperate to point out, repeatedly, that the murder has not been declared a hate crime yet, when nobody is actually saying that it is.
Is it a coincidence that those same people all have a history in this thread of being against trans rights?