“But he shouted ‘Free Palestine!’”

That’s the retort from angry Granite Staters being told there’s not enough evidence to declare Saturday night’s shooting at Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua a politically motivated hate crime. They’re dismissive of, and even a bit astonished by, Attorney General John Formella’s suggestion that it’s more likely the shooter “was trying to make a number of different statements to create chaos in the moment” than that he was motivated by politics.

As one NHJournal reader put it in an email: “Making statements about Palestine is clearly terrorist. WTF? What is wrong with NH? Wow. Cover it up.”

In fact, prosecutor Peter Hinkley told reporters on Sunday he “could not confirm” that the shooter shouted “Free Palestine.”

Given how hard government officials a

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