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Long Beach Teens Face Hate Crimes Charges
The L. A. Times ^
| 11/22/06
| Hector Beccerra and
Posted on 11/27/2006 7:24:05 PM PST by BnBlFlag
Long Beach teens face hate crime charges By Hector Becerra, November 22, 2006
Los Angeles County prosecutors today filed hate crimes charges against eight black teenagers accused of beating up three white women on Halloween night in a case that has startled and divided Long Beach.
Authorities said they took the action after concluding that the teens attacked and beat the women in the upscale Bixby Knolls area because they were white.
The case has been the subject of a wrenching public dialogue over the last few weeks in the racially diverse city of 460,000, with civil rights groups like the NAACP condemning the teenagers' alleged actions and the city holding a public forum meant to ease tensions. The attack occurred on a block known for fancy Halloween decorations.
According to police, a mob of mostly girls, ages 12 to 17, allegedly hurled racial insults at the women, threw small pumpkins and lemons at them, and then knocked them to the ground with kicks, punches and swings of a skateboard.
The attack left the women, two 19-year-olds and a 21-year-old bloodied and with broken bones, internal bruises and cuts, before a black passerby stopped his car and pulled their assailants away.
"What could have possibly gone through their mind to make them think this kind of behavior was OK?" asked Police Officer Jackie Bezart. The girls, who face felony assault charges, appeared in court today.
Their attorneys said the girls are good students and have no history of violence or criminal behavior. One of the girls won a full athletic scholarship to USC and had represented the United States in a track meet in China, her attorney told the court. He urged the judge to allow the girl out of Juvenile Hall so she could take the SATs.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hatecrimes; longbeach
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What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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posted on
11/27/2006 7:24:11 PM PST
by
BnBlFlag
To: BnBlFlag
He urged the judge to allow the girl out of Juvenile Hall so she could take the SATs.She's already been admitted to USC on a full scholarship. Why not just admit that the SAT's are a front? Just let somebody take them for her.
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posted on
11/27/2006 7:30:08 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(My remark was stupid, and I'm a slave of the patriarchy. So?)
To: BnBlFlag
...allow the girl out of Juvenile Hall so she could take the SATs. Yeh, yuwl bee thu smardust crimunul in Juvinhul holl!
3
posted on
11/27/2006 7:30:11 PM PST
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(If a pug barks and no one is around to hear it... they hold a grudge for a long time!)
To: BnBlFlag
Yoo-hoo, Jesse Jackson. Over here.
To: BnBlFlag
keep these savages locked up for as long as possible.
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posted on
11/27/2006 7:32:37 PM PST
by
bobby.223
Are there large crowds shouting "no justice, no peace"? I didn't think so.
To: BnBlFlag
Oh, wow! hector must have gotten straight A's at the Columbia School of Broadcasting. What possibly could these "white" women have done to enrage these upstanding "black teenagers" to hurl "small pumpkins" at them and "beat them up"?
What a load of crap!
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posted on
11/27/2006 7:33:42 PM PST
by
Eagles6
(Dig deeper, more ammo.)
To: BnBlFlag
["What could have possibly gone through their mind to make them think this kind of behavior was OK?" asked Police Officer Jackie Bezart.]
Perhaps the decades of race baiting opportunists constantly blaming 'whitey' for all the ills of black America have something to do with it.
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, among others, share a portion of the responsibility for this shameful behavior.
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posted on
11/27/2006 7:35:08 PM PST
by
spinestein
(There is no pile of pennies so large that I won't throw two more on top.)
To: BnBlFlag
"What could have possibly gone through their mind to make them think this kind of behavior was OK?" asked Police Officer Jackie Bezart Maybe it was 40 years of 'blame whitey'? Maybe it was 30 years of Calypso Louie BS? Maybe it was 15 years of Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap condoning violence against everyone?
Or maybe they're just trash....
L
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posted on
11/27/2006 7:35:24 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
To: Lurker
Or maybe, just maybe, alcohol was involved?
To: BnBlFlag
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posted on
11/27/2006 7:39:41 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: BnBlFlag
Wait one minute here. I thought blacks couldn't be charged with hate crimes. At least the way Jesse (I have a illegitimate child) Jackson has stated it. Especially black females. The NAACP or ACLU is going to try to turn the story around and blame the white girls for being "white". White people are all to blame for holding back the black people and our ancestors are all to blame for their being kidnapped from Africa and being used as slaves for years.
"What's good for the goose is good for gander" makes total sense but Jackson, NAACP or the ACLU have never been accused of having common sense.
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posted on
11/27/2006 7:43:04 PM PST
by
antiunion person
(Give 'em an inch and they will take everything !!!!)
To: BnBlFlag
Why didn't this make national news?
I think I know the answer.
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posted on
11/27/2006 8:05:44 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: BnBlFlag
One of the girls won a full athletic scholarship to USCMust the the "OJ Simpson athletic and boxing scholarship."
Mark
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posted on
11/27/2006 8:18:03 PM PST
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: antiunion person
I have a illegitimate child No such thing my friend just illegitimate parents
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posted on
11/27/2006 8:18:39 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi mom)
To: al baby
16
posted on
11/27/2006 8:20:42 PM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(God has blessed Republicans with political enemies who are going senile.)
To: Balding_Eagle
thats one of my biggest pet peeves
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posted on
11/27/2006 8:27:23 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi mom)
To: BnBlFlag
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posted on
11/27/2006 8:33:25 PM PST
by
Sender
("Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain)
To: Yaelle
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posted on
11/27/2006 8:49:18 PM PST
by
Brad’s Gramma
(Get right with God....eternity is a long time.....)
To: BnBlFlag
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posted on
11/27/2006 9:40:19 PM PST
by
swmobuffalo
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
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