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Invoking the name “Martin Luther King” and screaming “Black Power!” a gang of up to 30 black teens attacked four white girls in Marine Park in what police are saying is not a bias crime.
According to witnesses and parents of the victims, four young girls from St. Edmund’s had the day off from school due to Easter recess. They were playing basketball during dismissal from nearby Marine Park Junior High School, when several Marine Park students demanded to use the court.
After adults intervened and asked them to wait their turn, the teens left - but returned in a pack of up to 30, both boys and girls, and stormed into the park.
Witnesses say the attackers were all black and called their victims “white crackers” during the bloody melee, which raged for almost 20 minutes.
“This is not being looked at as a bias crime,” NYPD Deputy Inspector Kevin McGinn said at the meeting.
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If this incident had happened exactly the same way with the race of the victims and attackers reversed, it would have made the front page of many newspapers over the entire country. But because the girls attacked were white, it's only reported briefly on the local level, and the authorities are yawning over the whole affair, stating unequivocally the incident isn't a racial one.
OK, will some one please inform the rest of us "crackers" what precisely constitutes a "hate crime." Does anyone seriously doubt that a group of whites would be charged with a hate crime if the circumstances had been reversed?
Invoking the name “Martin Luther King” and screaming “Black Power!” a gang of up to 30 black teens attacked four white girls in Marine Park in what police are saying is not a bias crime.
According to witnesses and parents of the victims, four young girls from St. Edmund’s had the day off from school due to Easter recess. They were playing basketball during dismissal from nearby Marine Park Junior High School, when several Marine Park students demanded to use the court.
After adults intervened and asked them to wait their turn, the teens left - but returned in a pack of up to 30, both boys and girls, and stormed into the park.
Witnesses say the attackers were all black and called their victims “white crackers” during the bloody melee, which raged for almost 20 minutes.
“This is not being looked at as a bias crime,” NYPD Deputy Inspector Kevin McGinn said at the meeting.
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If this incident had happened exactly the same way with the race of the victims and attackers reversed, it would have made the front page of many newspapers over the entire country. But because the girls attacked were white, it's only reported briefly on the local level, and the authorities are yawning over the whole affair, stating unequivocally the incident isn't a racial one.
OK, will some one please inform the rest of us "crackers" what precisely constitutes a "hate crime." Does anyone seriously doubt that a group of whites would be charged with a hate crime if the circumstances had been reversed?
