Racially Motivated Assault Hate Crime Conviction
By Cletus Ernster
In a March 24, 2010 U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release at http://www.justice.org , the DOJ announced that a federal jury in Sacramento, California has convicted a 28-year-old man of a federal hate crime for assaulting an African-American man in a Chico, California bar. The conviction occurred after a 3 day trial. According to the DOJ, the evidence at trial showed that after entering the bar the perpetrator used a racially derogatory term to object to the victim’s presence. As stated further in the press release, the slur was used several times and, a short while later, without any verbal or physical provocation, the perpetrator approached and punched the victim in the face.
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