James Craig Anderson's Death Sparks Internet War Of Words Over Alleged Mississippi Hate Crime

James Craig Anderson's Death Sparks Internet War Of Words Over Alleged Mississippi Hate Crime: "JACKSON, Miss. -- Authorities call it a hate crime by two white teens against a middle-aged black man, 'murder by physically assaulting and purposefully using a 1998 Ford F-250 to run over James Craig Anderson.'

Defense lawyers insist the incident had nothing to do with race. One of the teen's attorneys said the group was on a beer run that morning, not out looking for a black man to assault, as prosecutors claim.

Regardless of whether race had anything to do with the killing, that's how it's being seen by many who live far away from Mississippi's capital. Stoked in part by security camera footage showing Anderson being run over, people across the country have begun to sound off on social media pages created for and against the defendants, filling them with shrill, often hateful comments."