Last week’s fatal shootings of two African Americans at a Kentucky Kroger grocery store is being investigated as a hate crime, officials said. “If it’s a hate crime, it’s unacceptable to us that a crime would be committed against a race ― certainly against any nationality or race is heinous.”Jeffersontown police Chief Sam Rogers said he believes the killings amount to a hate crime, according to spokeswoman Heather Hogue. “If these aren’t definitions of hate crimes, I don’t know what a hate crime is,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Monday. It’s up to federal authorities whether to file hate crime charges. The accused shooter reportedly told a white man outside the store that “whites don’t shoot whites” and moved on.

Source: Huffington Post October 30, 2018 15:29 UTC