Posted on 07/07/2006 10:42:56 AM PDT by celejrm313
June 30, 2006 -- Three white Brooklyn teens were charged yesterday with committing a hate crime after they pummeled three black kids riding their bicycles on a Gerritsen Beach street and incited onlookers to join in the attack , police said. The victims - Joseph Pascall and Deon Davis, both 17, and Aaron Adams, 16 - said they cycled into the neighborhood because they were lost, a police source said.
The thugs allegedly cornered the victims with their car near Florence Avenue and Celest Court on Monday at 9 p.m.
They taunted the teens with racial slurs before knocking them off their bikes with the car, and pinched and kicked them when they tried to get away, the source said.
Cops said an unknown number of people in the neighborhood saw the incident and joined in the taunting and violence.
Alessandro Cerciello, Christopher Rapuzzi and Joseph DeSimone, all 17, were charged yesterday with assault as a hate crime, gang assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment, menacing and unlawful imprisonment, police said.
The victims suffered bumps and bruises, police said.
The NYPD said the investigation was continuing, and there may be more arrests.
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No, that would be stupidity..............
Typical racist press. If they had wandered into a black neighborhood and been beaten, it wouldn't make the news. There always has to be white people involved to make the white editors put it in the news.
Human beings are naturally territorial. These kinds of things used to be common in every neighborhood. Not racially motivated as much as territory related.
When anyone is attacked (regardless of skin color) - completely unprovoked - it should be considered a crime. All crimes are "hate" crimes.
Is anyone else as sick of the "special treatment" of stories like this as I am??
sure reflecting. and I am sure if the races were reversed it would be news also.
Is it just me, or does this read like a mix of a sissy fight and a riot?
Taunting, pinching, bumps and bruises vs assault as a hate crime, gang assault as a hate crime, aggravated harassment, menacing and unlawful imprisonment
If true, these scum need to be taught a lesson.
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