[Yaelle]

Any publicity for this vicious, violent crime has been deliberately suppressed, as Gouncilwoman Gabelich admits in this article. Most people did not even know about this meeting.

I believe that a crime as heinous as what this mob of kids did should garner lots of local attention and even some national attention. If the races of the perps and victims had been reversed, everyone would find this crime worthy of national attention. I'd see Jesse Jackson walking my block if it had been an innocent black girl smashed repeatedly in the head with a skateboard by some white punks.

Please see the previous articles/threads on this, including one with a description by the victim girls of the attack and one where it appears Long Beach officials are shrinking the definition of a hate crime not even to include the attack on Reginald Denny (Rodney King riots).

[TheDon]

The incident involved a group of 20 to 40 black youths who attacked three white victims, according to the victims and witnesses.

"incident", I like it. It certainly wasn't a hate crime, as the victims were white. "Incident" is a good word to describe what took place.

[windcliff]

I never heard about this incident on the local news.

[monday]

One thing is clear. If hate crime charges are not filed, it will be because those whose job it is to file them are racist.

[John Lenin]

The local Lib rag The Press Telegram has run many articles on this incident, mostly on the back pages but when it first happened it was on the front page.

[montag813]

So far, police have arrested a dozen juveniles between the ages of 12 to 17 in connection with the beating.

I say send them all to Somalia.

[Question_Assumptions]

To be fair, according the article describing the attack, the Good Samaratan who waded in to the mob and saved the girl was black. Black Good Samaratans saves some people during the LA Riots, too. And some neighbors did say they called 911. Many blacks are simply as terrified of these thugs as white people are. And in many ways, the problem is the same problem that has allowed the thugs of the Muslim world to gain power and grow in numbers. When the good people back down, the thugs feel free to run wild.

[Larry Lucido]

wanted to know what could be done to avoid such crimes in the future.

[Bella_Bru]

Bixby Knolls is a nice area, but it borders on a really crappy area.