FBI investigating Hampton assailant for hate crime

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Hampton police have announced that the recent assault case against William Douglas, 25, has been turned over to the FBI, for possible prosecution as a hate crime.

Around 11:15 p.m, on Friday, April 16, Douglas allegedly followed 59-year-old Sylvia Hollingsworth, who is white, out of a 7-Eleven at the corner of North King Street and Rip Rap Road in Hampton.

As she got into her car, he attacked her.

According to the police report, he punched the woman in the face, neck and arms and repeatedly slammed her legs with the car door. Throughout the ordeal, the woman was subjected to a tirade of racist profanity.

After the attacker’s ride sped away, the man fled the scene.

Police believe that a few minutes later, the Douglas shot at someone.

The victim told WVEC 13 News: “Never once did he try to take my keys. Never once did he ask or try to take my pocketbook or any money. He was just out to hurt.”

Hollingsworth continued: “It leaves me hurt, and I feel like I'm a victim of a hate crime. Just in his own words, he hated whites and he was going to kill my 'f---ing' white ass, as he put it, and that's what he was trying to do.”

Hollingsworth, who walks with a cane, is still recovering from the attack.

William Douglas was charged with malicious wounding, shooting into an occupied vehicle and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

*Reporter’s note: There was no robbery involved, and the attacker and victim did not know one another. So, when an attack occurs for no apparent reason, one has to look a little deeper for a motive, such as race.

The attacker in this case, was black, while the victim was white. While that fact is seems to have been initially overlooked by the police as well as most of those reporting on the incident, race-fueled hatred is apparently the only motivating factor in this case.

While I personally find hate crime laws to be absurd, if this standard is to be applied in this country, then it must be applied equally. However, we have seen time and time again, that it is certainly not applied equally.

Given the fact that our current Attorney General has himself, expressed his approval for the unfair way in which the law is applied, we can expect to see more hypocrisy on this matter in the near future.

In June 2009, during his testimony before a Senate panel considering new hate crimes legislation, Attorney General Eric Holder clearly suggested that any new laws passed would not apply to white victims. When Sen. Jeff Sessions pressed Holder into saying exactly who would be protected under such laws, Holder gave his opinion that only those who have been subjected to “the unfortunate history of our nation,” should receive the added protection.

 

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