It's official, only whites go to jail for "hate crimes"

[Mustaine]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_on_re_us/halloween_beatings

4 hate-crime beating teens get probation

By NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press Writer Sat Feb 3, 4:19 AM ET

LONG BEACH, Calif. - Four of nine black teenagers convicted in the racially charged beating of three white women on Halloween were sentenced to probation Friday.

Punishment could have ranged up to confinement in a California Youth Authority lockup until age 25. The teens were ordered to serve 250 hours of community service, 60 days house arrest, and take anger management and racial tolerance programs.

"It was an awful crime. Terrible, emotional and physical injuries," Juvenile Court Judge Gibson Lee said.

Last week, Lee convicted nine teens — eight female and one male — of felony assault, with a hate-crime enhancement against all but one.

Among those sentenced Friday were an 18-year-old youth, his twin sister, their 16-year-old sister — who didn't receive the hate-crime enhancement — and another 16-year-old girl.

The other five defendants face sentencing next week. Names of the defendants were withheld because they are juveniles or were juveniles at the time and were tried as juveniles.

The 18-year-old male teenager had pleaded with the judge, saying he was innocent and tried to help the victims, including taking a skateboard away from an assailant who was using it as a weapon.

"What will my life be like? I'm 18 and convicted of a hate crime," he said.

The victims were in an affluent area of Long Beach that draws crowds with fancy Halloween displays when a crowd of black youths yelled racial insults and one shouted "I hate whites," according to prosecutors.

One victim testified the trio was pelted with small pumpkins and lemons. A witness testified two of the women were beaten with skateboards.

Prosecutors said the beating only ended when a black motorist stopped, pulled the assailants away and shielded the women with his body.

"I'm not sure if all the emotional scars will ever completely vanish," 21-year-old Loren Hyman, one of the victims, said earlier in a victim impact statement. "I feel like the beating I endured on Halloween night is still not over."

Two 15-year-old boys face trial later on charges of felony assault with the hate-crime enhancement.

if you really think the 15 year olds still to be sentenced will get something other than probation you are deluded.

the "Adults" of 18 only got probation.


this one just kills me:
"What will my life be like? I'm 18 and convicted of a hate crime," he said."

guess you shouldn't have beaten up on some one then huh?



if you have been following this case you probably aren't surprised... I still call bull**** though.

[Dago]

I agree with your disgust, they should not have been arrested and given probation, they should have just been shot at the scene.  It's all about deterrence.

[Speed55]

Totally  hypocitical B.S.

But it's been going on for years and years, so i'm not suprised.

[lasersailor184]

Didn't you know?  Hate crimes only count against the whites, not for.

[porkfrog]

i srive right thru downtown long beach everyday on my way to work. the courthouse area had been packed with news fans and extra police for days. google up some of the earlier information about the beatings and you will find they were especially savage and brutal. it's a crock of S that they got off so easy.

i'm disgusted.

[Mustaine]

Originally posted by porkfrog
...google up some of the earlier information about the beatings and you will find they were especially savage and brutal....

yup. I have been watching this one for a while.

this story has a picture of the defense attorney

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070127/ap_on_re_us/halloween_beatings_8

from one story:

One of the girls was battered so severely she will require ongoing surgery to repair multiple fractures around her face and to reposition one of her eyes.

[Xargos]

Time to stock up on the shoe polish.

[Debonair]

SCHNEL!!1ALL OF U IN DER KOOLAR

[Sandman]

Crime is crime. I don't see the motivation as being relevant.

[cav58d]

Originally posted by Xargos
Time to stock up on the shoe polish.

DAHHHHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ROFL:rofl

[Mustaine]

Originally posted by Sandman
Crime is crime. I don't see the motivation as being relevant.

tell that to that the "hate crime" bill writers

[Yknurd]

Originally posted by Sandman
Crime is crime. I don't see the motivation as being relevant.

I agree.  If you kill someone you should be put to death.  It's not any worse (or less worse) if you kill someone because of their race, religion, or sex.

Murder is murder and Yahweh says, "An eye for an eye, *****!"

[RightF00T]

Now they do, but we'll just ignore the other 300 years for now.  Not saying this is right at all, a hate crime is a hate crime and the black community would be up in arms if the reverse situation happened most likely, but I could imagine some people haven't forgotten the Jim Crowe era.

[john9001]

Originally posted by RightF00T
Now they do, but we'll just ignore the other 300 years for now.  Not saying this is right at all, a hate crime is a hate crime and the black community would be up in arms if the reverse situation happened most likely, but I could imagine some people haven't forgotten the Jim Crowe era.

300 years? , 300 years?, you want to spend your life in the past or live in the present and plan for the future?

don't try to lay guilt on me for what happened 300 years ago.

[dmf]

You know the black people and the white people that lived 300 years ago both have something in common....................... ............................. ..they're dead.

get over it.