Special day probed in girl's beating (Beat Up A White Kid Day)

Washington Times ^ | 6/20/03 | Steve Miller

[kattracks]

Eighteen young people ages 9 to 15 have been charged with ethnic intimidation in connection with a May 1 attack on a white teenager in Cleveland, part of what the participants called "beat up a white kid day," according to prosecutors.

[BenLurkin]

I fear that this type of event is a harbinger of more dreadful things to come.

[Fred Mertz]

No, it's a minor incident and ugly. No need to worry about worse things to come.

[thegreatbeast]

This is bad business.
"Several of the accused perpetrators were students at the middle school, and received 10-day suspensions following the episode, which occurred after school as the victim walked home with two friends."
They shouldn't be near a school until this is adjudicated.

[sheik yerbouty]

Where's Sharpton(The Graft Zeppelin), where's Jesse Jackson?

[cgk]

"If there was a plan to do this, it would be real bad," Mr. Naso said. Such a finding could lead to criminal conspiracy charges.

Dude's bin hangin' wid da homies 2 much, yo.

[Types_with_Fist]

No, it's a minor incident...

Disagree. It's an increasingly common incident. Worse is coming. Just my opinion.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Special day probed in girl's beating (Beat Up A White Kid Day)

And when they find out that it's not really a special day?

[aristeides]

Trouble is, with the media refusing to report incidents like this, it's very hard to tell how common this sort of thing is. William McGowan describes how these stories get spiked in Coloring the News. And I experienced it myself when a gang attacked me with baseball bats and the local papers refused to cover the incident.