A Maryland grand jury has indicted Sean Urbanski for allegedly murdering an African-American student in May.
Urbanski, a white former University of Maryland student who belonged to the racist Alt-Reich: Nation Facebook group, is facing a hate crime charge in the death of Richard Collins III. The victim had recently been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and was days away from his graduation from another Maryland school.
While it makes sense to prosecute this murder as a hate crime, my 15 years experience of studying violent extremism in Western