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Jim
U-Va. Students Allegedly Attacked
By Carol Morello
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 30, 2002; Page B04
Hate crime charges will not be brought against nine African American
teenagers from Charlottesville accused of assaulting white and Asian
students at the University of Virginia, officials said yesterday.
A white rights group said it would use the case to lobby for repeal of hate
crime laws in Virginia that raise some misdemeanors to felonies if a
victim's race or ethnicity was a motivating factor in a violent crime.
The case arises from five incidents between September and January. In all,
nine U-Va. students walking near the campus were assaulted by groups of
teenagers. In some incidents, the victims were kicked and punched.
After the arrests of nine teenagers, most of them students at
Charlottesville High School, police reported that some of the suspects said
they had targeted the victims because they were white, or at least the
assailants thought they were.
But Commonwealth's Attorney David Chapman said he could not prove beyond a
reasonable doubt that any specific suspect in the assaults was motivated by
race. He said he believed that envy, resentment and peer pressure were more
to blame.
Eight teenage suspects are scheduled to appear in juvenile court next month.
They face charges ranging from misdemeanor assault to malicious wounding.
Chapman made his decision public Thursday after the only adult charged in
the case pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of assault and battery by
mob. As a result of a plea bargain, Gordon L. Fields, 18, was sentenced to
spend one month in jail, perform 50 hours community service and make
restitution. He also agreed to testify against the other teenagers.
In a statement he read aloud after his sentencing, Fields apologized for his
actions. He said he jumped into an assault on three U-Va. students Jan. 25
when he mistakenly assumed that a female friend of his was being attacked by
one of the college students.
J. Lloyd Snook III, Fields's attorney, said the incident occurred as two
carloads of teenagers were returning from a basketball game. He said the
teenagers, all of whom are black, had gotten into an argument that involved
name-calling earlier that day with a group of white young people at a
restaurant. He said Fields did not know that any of his friends might have
been planning to assault white students near the university.
Chapman noted that Fields had not been in legal trouble before and described
his client's participation as "secondary."
The Charlottesville incidents have gained national attention from several
white rights groups opposed to hate crime laws usually invoked when members
of minority groups are the victims.
"I can't imagine if white teens were involved in random attacks on black
students that it would have been the same result," said Ron Doggett, head of
the Virginia chapter of a group called the European-American Unity and
Rights Organization, which is led by former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke.
"The double standard is overwhelming."
© 2002 The Washington Post Company
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38428-2002Mar29.html
SKD
> Teens Not Charged With Hate Crimes
> U-Va. Students Allegedly Attacked
>
> By Carol Morello
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Saturday, March 30, 2002; Page B04
>
>
> "I can't imagine if white teens were involved in random attacks on black
> students that it would have been the same result," said Ron Doggett, head of
> the Virginia chapter of a group called the European-American Unity and
> Rights Organization, which is led by former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke.
> "The double standard is overwhelming."
>
The heart breaks hearing them bleat. What's happened to the good ole
tactics of random lynching, burning, and dragging by the tailerbar.
Donovan Rebbechi
wrote:
> "I can't imagine if white teens were involved in random attacks on black
> students that it would have been the same result," said Ron Doggett, head of
> the Virginia chapter of a group called the European-American Unity and
> Rights Organization, which is led by former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke.
> "The double standard is overwhelming."
What, the KKK crowd are concerned about racism all of a sudden ? Hahahahaha
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Donovan
brojack
wrote:
Why not, the jigaboos milked the shit out of it.
BroJack