Posted on 01/25/2007 3:04:07 PM PST by TaxRelief
GREENSBORO -- Guilford College has asked five students involved in a weekend fight that some have labeled a hate crime to move off campus while police and school officials investigate.
The students, three Guilford football players and two Palestinian students the players allegedly attacked, will still be allowed to attend class and study in the college library, said Guilford President Kent Chabotar. A third Palestinian student, who attends college in Raleigh and was visiting friends at Guilford, has also said he was assaulted during Saturday's altercation.
Chabotar announced the school's request at an emotional forum held Wednesday evening near campus, and stressed the college was still working to figure out what happened.
"I'm saying we need to get the truth," Chabotar said, adding that administrators were hearing "a core of things that are very consistent" about the fight.
Authorities have charged Michael Bates, 19, of Reidsville; Michael Robert Six, 20, of Greensboro; and Christopher Barnette, 21, of Semora, with misdemeanor assault and ethnic intimidation, according to court documents. They were released Monday on $2,000 bail.
The documents state the three players taunted Guilford students Faris Khader and Osama Sabbah, and North Carolina State University student Omar Awartani, with racial slurs and called them "terrorists" as they assaulted them with their fists and feet.
An arrest warrant said Six used brass knuckles.
Awartani has said he suffered a concussion and had trouble walking on his own for several days after the attack. Sabbah's aunt said Wednesday her nephew also suffered a concussion and had his hand placed in a cast.
School officials believe about 12 people were involved in Saturday's altercation. Administrators at the school, which has a Quaker background, said Wednesday they are still trying to determine whether some of those involved were fighting or trying to break it up.
None of the players charged or the students they allegedly attacked have returned messages seeking comment.
Police said they have assigned a detective to investigate the fight, which was reported to authorities on Sunday when Sabbah, Khader and Awartani went to the county magistrate's office and swore out complaints against the three players.
"We're just trying to get a handle on it now before we release any more information," said Greensboro police Lt. Brian James.
During Wednesday's meeting with Chabotar, students, staff and parents took turns expressing their anger, sadness and concern about the fight. Many echoed their support of various speakers with the Quaker phrase, "Friend speaks my mind."
"I think that the culture of aggression that we have needs to be addressed," said Natalie Bent, a Guilford freshman from Durham.
When Quakers attack.
And if the "Palestinian" students turn out the instigators, I'm sure that will receive national coverage too. < /sarcasm>
Jimma Carter needs to be called in on this and give those ruffian footballers a course on how to treat those loving Palistinian victims. sarc.
Someone posted a newspaper article on this altercation the other day.
In the article, the reporter quoted a girl who said she saw the whole thing.
I can't find that thread at the moment but amazingly the reporter did not ask the simple question, "so how did it start?"
Am I the only one who thinks that is the obvious first question a reporter would think to ask? (Or maybe he asked but didn't see fit to share the answer with the readers.)
IIRC, the only response he quoted from that eyewitness was in answer to his question along the lines of "did you see football players strike the palestinian students?"
The problem with the MSM is that, yes it is possible the incident played out exactly in the manner they would lead us to believe, but yet one never knows, because one simply can't trust the MSM to accurately report the whole story in any incident that has racial overtones.
http://www.modelmayhem.com/member.php?id=177218
Oh, good grief, here he is!! Check this out!!
http://www.p-t-f.org/en/iraq/Building.htm
Great find, Race.
Everyone needs to check out your link.
http://www.modelmayhem.com/member.php?id=177218
My pinglist is a tad out of date...
NCers may find this interesting.
Makes you wonder if he was hired for a paid performance.
Those aren't "models"! They're whores.
Always be suspicious of what the press DOESN'T tell you!
gaydar went off
Why am I not surprised by this comment?
The presence of brass knuckles would mitigate against that scenario, I think.
Let's find out if there actually were brass knuckles involved. That claim pings my BS detector.
Granted, it sounds like it's out of a bad 50s sitcom, but that is what the article says.
I agree with your skepticism, given the tendency of the "Muslim community" to cry wolf.
Assuming wolf is halal.
Given that there are many legal and effective bastard-beaters available, carrying brass knuckles strikes me as being a bit unlikely. I acknowledge that there is jewelry that could have a similar effect, not the least including those big "bowl" rings frequently worn by...OK, football players.
Assuming wolf is halal.
Dunno. I'm sure it's not kosher, though. (Doesn't have a cloven hoof or chew the cud.)
P.S. The fact that the university has asked both the "perps" and "victims" to move off campus suggests that there's more to the story than went into the article.
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