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).
"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.
I never heard about this incident on the local news.
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.
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.
I say send them all to Somalia.
Bixby Knolls is a nice area, but it borders on a really crappy area.