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California student files claim over racial abuse
Sacramento Bee ^ | March 21, 2014

Posted on 03/21/2014 3:38:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A black student who says his suite mates at a California university put a bike lock around his neck and racially harassed him has filed a $5 million claim against the school.

Four white students — Logan Beaschler and Colin Warren, both 18, Joseph Bomgardner, 19, and an unidentified juvenile — have pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor hate crime charges. They shared a suite with Williams and are accused of putting the bike lock on him, taunting him with racial slurs, barricading him in his room and putting up a Confederate flag.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: race

1 posted on 03/21/2014 3:38:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shall we hold our breath til this is revealed to be a hoax?


2 posted on 03/21/2014 3:40:01 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And this is the schools fault, how ?


3 posted on 03/21/2014 3:40:16 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: GeronL
And this is the schools fault, how ?

Cause the white boys ain't got enough money for the lawyers to leech from.

4 posted on 03/21/2014 3:42:47 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Proud Teabagging Barbarian Terrorist Hobbit Crazy Cracker Son-of-a-Bitch!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sounds like he swiped the bicycle lock detail from an episode of Breaking Bad.


6 posted on 03/21/2014 3:47:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hoaxy Doaksy!


7 posted on 03/21/2014 3:51:21 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Perhaps retaliation for the “Knockout” game.
8 posted on 03/21/2014 3:56:04 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

             

9 posted on 03/21/2014 4:02:37 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Our hope is this claim sparks a conversation”

Ah, yes, gotta have a ‘conversation.

Like DukeLAX


10 posted on 03/21/2014 4:03:45 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: GeronL

Article says that a dorm RA knew about it and didn’t do enough.


11 posted on 03/21/2014 4:04:25 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: GeronL

Article says that a dorm RA knew about it and didn’t do enough.


12 posted on 03/21/2014 4:04:25 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
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To: GeronL

Because they either didn’t have black-only dorms, or there was no room in them.


13 posted on 03/21/2014 4:07:57 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: madprof98
Shall we hold our breath til this is revealed to be a hoax?

What's the over/under?

I say three weeks.

14 posted on 03/21/2014 4:15:35 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

5 people involved, including the “victim”. Sue for $5mil, a cool $1 mil apiece for all, if the perps simply confess to the midemeanor.


15 posted on 03/21/2014 4:25:24 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (God is not the author of confusion. 1 Cor 13: 33)
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To: madprof98

That was my first thought at the headline.


16 posted on 03/21/2014 4:28:34 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

TAWANA BRAWLEY


17 posted on 03/21/2014 5:18:14 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Zippy the a##clown sez..............)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And his damages are WHAT???


18 posted on 03/21/2014 5:29:15 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let me see...$5,000,000 split 5 ways...these people don’t need a job after graduation...assuming graduation was ever the plan.


19 posted on 03/21/2014 5:30:15 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The race that called wolf. Do I think it was done? Victims is always calling wolf.


20 posted on 03/21/2014 5:59:46 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (2014: The Year of DEAD RINOS)
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