Re "Ire over hanged Palin doll," Oct. 28
Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, said in regard to a public display of Sarah Palin hanging in effigy that potential hate crimes are evaluated on a case-by-case basis and if the same display had been made of a Barack Obama-like doll, authorities would have to evaluate it independently. "That adds a whole other social, historical hate aspect to the display, and that is embedded in the consciousness of the country," he said.
