Conservatives often pay lip service to diversity. Many like those in Indiana don’t really think racism is an issue. Not in the heartland.
But nothing can be farther from the truth.
Take a good look at 56-year-old Billie R. Davis from Indiana. She’d probably look at you a little differently if you’re Asian American Filipino.
Davis has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery, and battery by means of a deadly weapon. She stabbed an 18-year-old AAPI student from Indiana University as they both exited a local bus in Bloomington, Indiana, according to surveillance footage from the transit agency. Police say there were no prior interactions when the suspect Davis appeared to strike the victim in the head with a knife.
Davis left the scene, as first responders arrived and treated the young female victim for stab wounds to the head. The student then was sent to a local hospital. The police only arrested Davis after being tipped off by a witness who followed the suspect leaving the bus. And then police say Davis essentially confessed to a hate crime. Davis told police she stabbed the victim because she was “Chinese.” And she said it “would be one less person to blow up our country.”
Emil Guillermo
Too bad there’s no hate crime law in Indiana, one of four states in the country that doesn’t want to bother with understanding the deep animus of the crime.
