A victim of a racial hate crime if there ever was one was Jasper, TX, resident James Byrd Jr., who was chained to a pick-up truck and dragged around three miles.
In 1998, three sadistic Bubbas beat the 49-year-old Byrd, who was black, apparently slit his throat, and used a logging chain to drag his body over a rural road as an example of white power, or something such. According to testimony, Byrd had been walking home from a party, caught a ride with the three men, then got into a fight with one of them. The three left Byrd's mutilated body in front of a black church.
In response to this brutal killing, Texas passed the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act to increase penalties for such murders.
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