Under state law, a hate crime is defined as a criminal offense against someone based on their “race, color, religion, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin or gender.” Federal law defines a hate crime as a crime committed against someone or someone’s property because of bias against “race, religion, disability, ethnic orientation or sexual orientation. Josh Vallum plead guilty to killing his transgender girlfriend, 17-year-old Mercedes Williamson on Wednesday in Gulfport. Joshua Josh Vallum - who is a member of the Latin Kings street gang - has been in custody since June 2 2015, a day after he told his father hed killed someone and buried them in a field. A George County grand jury indicted Joshua Josh Vallum on a charge of murder in the killing of Mercedes Williamson, a 17-year-old Theodore, Ala., resident whose birth name was Michael. Josh Vallum, 29, drove Mercedes Williamson, 17, from Alabama to his familys. You can’t kill, period.’ I long for the day when we can accept and embrace our differences instead of killing over them.” Hate crime definition A Latin Kings gang member pleaded guilty to murdering his transgender girlfriend last May in court on Tuesday. “We should not allow one person to decide whether they can hate someone and justify a killing. Prosecutors said Vallum shocked 17-year-old Mercedes Williamson with a stun gun, stabbed her and beat her to death in 2015 to keep fellow Latin Kings gang members from discovering the two had. 2015 Josh Vallum, who was in a relationship with the woman, confessed to. “I don’t think we should allow another person to take that life because of their own personal view or their opinion, whether it’s based on race like we saw play out in the horrors of Charleston (S.C.), whether it’s based on ethnicity like we saw in Nazi Germany, whether it’s based on religion like we are seeing ISIS do today in the Middle East or whether it’s based on sexual orientation. stabbed her and beat her to death in 2015 to keep fellow Latin Kings gang. “You know, God gave each human being a life and right to that life,” he said.
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