Two similar incidents, and the Feds only care about one of them

1. An innocent Belleville, Illinois high school student on a school bus (who happens to be white) simply going about his business is taunted, then badly beaten by two black students as many other black students on the bus cheer them on. Furthermore, the bus driver does nothing to stop the assault. The attackers are charged with aggravated battery.

2. An innocent woman (who happens to be black) simply going about her business gets badly beaten by a white man at a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Morrow, Georgia after an altercation at the entrance to the establishment. The man is charged with battery and disorderly conduct.

Both are senseless violent crimes carried out by brutal thugs, and they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

-except-

"The FBI has "initiated an investigation in the matter to determine if a civil rights violation occurred [in the second incident]," the agency said in a statement."

Why is only the second case deemed worthy of such close scrutiny by the Feds in spite of the apparently very similar circumstances in the two incidents, and despite the Belleville police initially (before they were muzzled) labeling the bus assault as being "racially motivated"? It couldn't solely have to do with the disparate races of the victims, now could it?

It would appear once again that Attorney General Eric "Neutral, leaning towards favorable" Holder's "Justice" Department is reserving the investigation and filing of "hate crime" charges solely for minority victims, and that in their esteemed judgment such a crime towards a white person simply doesn't exist.

That's a wrong and discriminatory policy in itself.

"Hate crimes" laws are simply an updated term for "thought crimes", which by definition cannot be proven as no one can truly know what goes on in a person's head. Punish the deed, not the thinking behind it. After all, who cares what the motivation for a crime, from murder to mugging, happens to be?

The victim usually doesn't, that's for sure.