ASAN – Public Prosecutors refuse to prosecute four people who investigated the police after an attack on a gay man on Austin VI Street last April. Travis provincial attorney office in March told the court that he would not follow charges of assault against three brothers at the University of Texas and a woman.
Prosecutors said that the case has many complex factors and that “after a comprehensive and comprehensive review, the facts and evidence did not meet the highest legal level of proof, in a way that does not cause any doubt.” KXan highlighted the case in the investigation last year showed some hate crimes in Texas.
Austin police investigators claimed in a police report that the security aura cameras in the ministry showed three Serban Joshua Ybarra in the center of Austin, and fasted it on the ground and repeatedly punch it. According to multiple sources, the halo cameras recorded the accident from a distance and had no sound.
Ybarra told the police, after which KXan, he was repeatedly called homosexuality during the meeting. The APD Crime Review Committee reviewed the case last spring and set the alleged procedures for at least one of the men that will be classified as a hate crime, as e -mail records appear.
According to Ybarra’s lawyer, that night was wearing a wallet, necklace and heel.
The provincial prosecutor’s office did not provide details about the elements in the case that was complicated, but the legal Ybarra team described the lack of sound in the video and the uncertainty about it, which the party began to communicate on the night of the accident.
“Nothing in the video contradicts that the brothers, the brothers, approached him and his friends, and began to worry about them and brutally hit him. In fact, the video confirms the story that Mr. Yabra told from the beginning.”
David White, who represented the man who was facing the promotion of hatred for the assault, denied that his client made any harmful statements.
White also claimed that he was a friend of Ybarra who started physical communication that night. He and David Thomas, a lawyer who represents two other men accused of assaulting a physical injury, accused him of lying to police officers and prosecutors.
White said in a statement to Kasan: “The preliminary investigation of the Austin Ministry of Police is greatly dependent on the accused’s misleading account, and overlooks the video evidence that can solve this matter soon.”
Laki called the allegations Ybarra a lie about the accident or its injuries “is a false and false.
Laki said: “While the video confirms the consistent statements of Mr. Ybarra that the brotherly brothers approached him and disturbed him and that one of his friends faced them and asked them to retreat, the video is mysterious whether that friend or one of the brothers had started the first physical communication.”
Hate crime improvements in Texas
In 2001, the governor of Texas Rick Perry signed the James Bird Junior crime law in the law, which allowed the penalties reinforced for a crime committed by bias. The Texas Law requires that public prosecutors prove that the defendant chose the victim or their property intentionally due to the race of a person, color, deficit, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual preference, or the situation as a peace officer or a judge.
The Ministry of Public Safety of Texas has tracked hate crime accidents since the early 1990s, reaching a record number 529 in 2022. And that year alone, he reached 118 of the hate crimes claimed by the victims on the basis of sexual orientation, which is also high. In the first six months of 2024, a total of 287 hate crimes were reported by law enforcement at the state level, 44 of them due to sexual orientation.
The report does not mean that the crime of hatred will be confirmed in court. Data from the state’s court administration officeOr OCA, it appears that it is rare for prosecutors in Texas even the judge or the jury to determine whether the suspect is guilty of the crime of hatred.
Between September 2001 and June 2024, DPS 6,632 received reports of hate crime from law enforcement agencies. In some cases, suspects were accused of targeting victims because of multiple biases – for example, both sweat and sexual orientation. Therefore, state data shows 6,797 bias during that time period: 64 % due to race, race or origin, 20 % due to sexual tendency and 12 % due to religion. Other biases are less than 5 %.
But the data from OCA shows in these thousands of reports, public prosecutors only asked to infer the crime of hatred in 41 cases – 0.6 % of all reported hate crimes. Even fewer, 36, he found the crime of hatred confirmed by the judge or the jury.