Posted on 12/10/2004 6:35:54 AM PST by esryle
BOSTON -- A Norwood, Mass., man is accused of stabbing a man, stoning him and leaving him to be run over by a train because he dated a black woman, officials alleged Thursday.
Dimitri Long, 28, shielded his face from the camera as he appeared in Norfolk Superior Court.
"The charges are assault with intent to murder, mayhem, and civil rights violations. The dangerous weapons used were a lit cigarette and a knife," Assistant District Attorney Lynn Beland said.
Officials alleged that Long was angry that the victim, a white male in his 20s, had once dated a black woman. In September, Long and two other people, including Long's girlfriend, confronted the victim after smashing the windows to his house.
"He was then jumped upon, hit in the head and beaten. From there, he was dragged to a nearby apartment, which was actually the apartment of a co-defendant. Inside the apartment, he was beaten. He was stabbed in the area of the chest with a knife. Lit cigarettes were put on him, and there was racial slurs written on his back," Beland said.
The suspects allegedly yelled that the victim was a disgrace to his race. They allegedly pulled the victim into a car, where the racial slurs continued, and threw him out of the vehicle.
"They threw him out of the car while it was still moving. They moved ahead. They stopped. They backed up the vehicle and dragged him over to some train tracks, where he was in and out of consciousness, and the defendants fled," Beland said.
The victim managed to drag himself to a nearby gas station, where he called his father for help. Long was ordered held on $200,000 bail. The other two defendants in the case have already been charged.
Hard to tell with a name like Dimitri.
Could be black, could be Greek.
John Edwards to the rescue!
"Your honor, if it weren't for the gosh-darned nicotine in these aweful death sticks produced by evil companies content on killing millions of people for one sale of a pack of these, these innocent, misguided young man would have never did this."
Yes, this occured in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU football plater attacked a reserve Sgt. (think that's what he was).. I believe that the charges are being diluted...
Well I am sure that the NAACP and other human rights groups will come out and make the same racket they did when James Byrd was killed.
Its a good thing that black leaders and human right groups are not hyporcrites when it comes to hate crimes.
Who?
I remember some of the cooler talk criticism of Clarence Thomas from minority women was he married a white woman.
People in Blue States are sooooo much more tole-RANT than we are in The South........
I'm sure I may get some negative responses from any black females here at FR, but I have noticed that black women get mightily p.o.'d if an attractive, successful black man chooses to date a white woman.
I live in the South and personally, I don't have a problem seeing interracial couples together if they look to be over 25. When they are that age, I believe they have the maturity to know who they really want to date and to know how to handle the negative situations that may arise from friends or family members (or ignorant people).
Most of the time, however, in the malls here the interracial couples fit the following profile.
Overweight, pale, bleached blonde female (age 15-18) with piercings and jewelry dangling from every appendage seen with a gangsta "Snoop Dog" wanna-be, dread locks, wearing 15 gold chains and jeans so baggy the crotch hangs to his knees and shows ALL of his underwear. The female is always looking around to see who is looking at her.
SUV?
yes the accused is white. He told his victim(who is also white) that he was a disgrace to his race.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=58138
Google has no image of our Mr. Long.
The article says that they are also being charged with civil rights violations. I'm not sure if that translates into a hate crime or not.
Key detail lands suspected white supremacist in jail
By Laurel J. Sweet
Friday, December 10, 2004
Suspected white supremacist Dimitri Long knew the cops were gunning for him - and he was ready.
A handcuff key was found on the lanky 28-year-old fugitive when he was arrested Tuesday night while checking into a detox center in Foxboro, prosecutor Lynn Beland said yesterday.
The assistant Norfolk district attorney's disturbing detail of how Long, his girlfriend and a second man allegedly tried to torture Joseph Parks of Norwood to death for dating a black woman persuaded Norfolk Superior Court Judge Wendie Gershengorn to hold him on $100,000 cash bail.
Long threw his arms up over his angular face when confronted by news cameras and shouted ``not guilty'' when asked how he wished to plea to his alleged hate crime.
Beland said the oft-incarcerated drug addict was on probation for another assault and battery case when he was picked up for allegedly beating, burning and stoning Parks, then trying to have him run over by a commuter train.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=58138
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I'm assuming from this that the perps are white, but the reporter really needs to verify this for the story to be fully understood.
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