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W. Seattle teen beaten bloody in possible hate crime
KOMONews.com ^ | May 29, 2010 | Shomari Stone and Joel Moreno

Posted on 03/29/2012 6:29:59 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

SEATTLE - A 16-year-old boy from West Seattle says he was held hostage and beaten for hours, all because of the color of his skin.

Shane McClellan says two men kicked and whipped him at gunpoint - and told him they singled him out because he is white.

Tim McClellan, Shane's father, says he barely recognized his son after the brutal assault.

"I didn't know if he was alive or dead," Tim McClellan said.

The incident happened as Shane McClellan was walking home from a birthday party at a friend's house Tuesday around 2 a.m.

Shane says two men called to him from the top of a staircase near the intersection of 14th Avenue SW and SW Holden Street. The men asked for a light, and when Shane walked over to oblige, they knocked him to the ground and started kicking him.

The two men knocked the frightened teen around on the staircase, making racially charged remarks.

"They started bringing up the past - like slavery - being like, white people did this," Shane said in an exclusive interview with KOMO News reporter Shomari Stone.

The attackers stripped off McClellan's belt and started whipping his back.

"They said, 'This is for what your people did to our people.' They were like whipping me with my belt, my studded belt," Shane recounts.

One of the men held a gun against the back of his head and burned his neck with cigarettes.

At one point they shoved McClellan's face into a hole with the gun against his head. They also urinated on him and poured beer over him.

"What he told me, when they were beating him with the belt, they were saying, 'I don't like white people,'" says Shane's father, Tim McClellan.

Shane recalls, "They're like, 'Aw, white boy, what are you doing? You can't hang out this late. What are you doing around here?' They're like, 'White boy has no belonging - being out here at 2 a.m.'"

"They targeted me for being white, and they made it very clear thats why they were assaulting me," Shane says.

The boy told police that one of his attackers appeared to be black and the other Asian or Pacific Islander.

The victim's father says this was nothing short of hours of torture.

"Put a gun to the back of his head and told him if he said anything they were going to blow his head off while they sat there and burned him with cigarettes on the back of the neck," he says.

The two assailants held the victim on the ground for some time, and Shane eventually passed out.

When he regained consciousness, the attackers were gone. They had taken his money, a coat and an MP3 player.

Shane waved down a passing car for help and met his family at the hospital.

Seattle police have referred the case to their Bias Crimes Unit for review as a possible hate crime.

Detectives told the family they are working on a photo montage of possible suspects - and will see if the victim is able to identify his attackers from the line-up.

Shane is now out of the hospital and recovering at home.

But he gets chills when he looks at the photos that were taken of him right after the attack.

"Gets me shaken up every time I see it," he says. "I don't know, I just get vibes overall from seeing those pictures."

He says he has learned not to wander through the neighborhood at 2 in the morning - and he hopes his attackers are caught and charged with a hate crime.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: assault; battery; shanemcclellan; torture
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

By Shomari Stone and Joel Moreno Published: May 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM PDT Last Updated: May 30, 2010 at 1:12 PM PDT


21 posted on 03/29/2012 6:56:31 PM PDT by wolficatZ ("We are no longer accepting comments on this article")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Republicans from every State in the Union need to write legation and present bills that will hold Blacks accountable for hate crimes. Separate laws should be put forward and voted on by each States Congress and Senate's. The democrats and the assumed obstructionist attitudes towards these bills to enact laws of Equality should be the Right's/Republican's blow back to the Obama Administrations' orcharestrated attempts to whip up racial/emotional voter base and get the conservative/independents enraged over the race baiting, gender warpped emotional attempts to shore up a democrat voter base.

Also, there should be bills/legistation presented to ID the voter registration of criminals.

22 posted on 03/29/2012 6:57:44 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I would expect Shane McClellan to be getting a call from our Dear Reader, and apologizing for “his people's” behavior.
23 posted on 03/29/2012 6:58:20 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

http://i41.tinypic.com/dc8wgz.jpg

24 posted on 03/29/2012 7:01:06 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
He says he has learned not to wander through the neighborhood at 2 in the morning - and he hopes his attackers are caught and charged with a hate crime.

WTF?

He ought to be out there trolling every night, starting with "the stairway..."

25 posted on 03/29/2012 7:03:13 PM PDT by papertyger ("And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if...")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Somali immigrant Ahmed Mohamed says the attack was fueled by alcohol and that he doesn't remember much about what happened. (KIRO Radio/Tim Haeck)

The attack was savage. Two people set upon Shane McClellan in the early morning hours one day last May as the 16-year-old was walking home from a friend's house.

"They burned him with lit cigarettes, they urinated on him, they beat him, his teeth were chipped, his face was swollen almost beyond recognition when the police arrived several hours later," deputy prosecutor Erin Becker told a judge Friday.

Police say the men beat and tortured McClellan for as long as four hours, at one point saying "how do you like it, white boy?"

A judge sentenced Mohamed to 69 months in prison, almost six years, for robbery and malicious harassment with a firearm enhancement. She called the crime hateful, humiliating and senseless™ ..
 
 
 
IOW, no federal hate crime statutes were invoked to enhance his sentence? Just the judge saying it was hateful and senseless
 
Nothing to see here, move along.
 

26 posted on 03/29/2012 7:12:07 PM PDT by wolficatZ ("We are no longer accepting comments on this article")
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To: gaijin

gaijin, VERY NICE piece of work!!


27 posted on 03/29/2012 7:13:53 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We need to be armed at all times.


28 posted on 03/29/2012 7:18:08 PM PDT by rep-always
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Black on White?
No hate crime here. Nothing happened.
Just keep walking.

Someday, the other side is going to get real mad. Real mad! I for one have almost reached that point.


29 posted on 03/29/2012 7:19:08 PM PDT by Tupelo ( 2012 TEA PARTYER but no longer a Republican)
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To: funfan

Oh, good God, I picked it off of Twitter. Thought it was current. My bad.


30 posted on 03/29/2012 7:20:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Kinda of makes you wonder how many of these crimes
happen and we never hear about them because the media is only interested in certain hate crimes. I see Soledad Obrien is having a special on Cnn on Friday or Thursday
“Join CNN for our Trayvon Martin Town Hall: “Beyond Trayvon”
it is like he is the only person ever to die it is disgusting how the media picks and chooses.
31 posted on 03/29/2012 7:27:19 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Obama and the Democratic Party are stirring up enormous race hatred in this country.


32 posted on 03/29/2012 7:27:28 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

O.K. who let’s their 16 year old be out walking at 2 AM. Not saying it is his fault he was attacked but that seems a little irresponsible from a parenting point of view.


33 posted on 03/29/2012 7:28:58 PM PDT by albionin
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To: gaijin

Outstanding illustration of the Democratic Party controlled media dishonesty.


34 posted on 03/29/2012 7:30:11 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: gaijin

Outstanding illustration of the Democratic Party controlled media dishonesty.


35 posted on 03/29/2012 7:30:11 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Only a mile from where I grew up. Had a paper rout on that street. Times have changed. I used to roam all over that neighborhood until 3-4 in the morning.


36 posted on 03/29/2012 7:33:55 PM PDT by irishtenor (Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
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To: SledgeCS

Multi-ethnic community... mostly white.


37 posted on 03/29/2012 7:36:05 PM PDT by irishtenor (Everything in moderation, however, too much whiskey is just enough... Mark Twain)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It is current news. It happened during zero’s reign.


38 posted on 03/29/2012 7:47:17 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: rawcatslyentist
I'm sure the Justice Bros are headed your way!


39 posted on 03/29/2012 7:47:29 PM PDT by massmike (Massachusetts: If they had just kept hanging witches a bit longer...........)
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To: The KG9 Kid
>"I guess I'll just have to watch America burn on HDTV from the safety of my home."

Don't forget to get plenty of TP for your bungholio. and nachos too!


40 posted on 03/29/2012 7:57:27 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (3 little children murdered by islam, Toulouse March 2012 . Time for the Final Crusade!!!!!)
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