Hate crimes charges after students fasten bike lock around black roommate’s neck and call him ‘3/5'

[phantom power]

Funny, there's that confederate flag again. Can somebody remind me which other "southern heritage" - besides balls-out racism - that flag is supposed to "celebrate"?

Three students at San Jose State University have been charged with misdemeanor hate crimes and battery after being accused of tormenting a black roommate.

University police announced on Wednesday that arrest warrants were being issued for 18-year-old freshmen students Colin Warren, Joseph Bomgardner and Logan Beaschler. According to police, the three students hazed a fellow student while they were all living in an eight-person suite between Aug. 20 and Oct. 13.

The San Jose Mercury News reported that the victim’s parents first suspected that something was wrong with the living situation in mid-October when they noticed a Confederate flag covering a cardboard cutout of Elvis in the dorm room. They also reported to campus police that they had seen the N-word scrawled on a dry-erase board.

Police reports indicated that the students gave their 17-year-old victim the nicknames of “Three-fifth” and “Fraction,” referring to the way the original U.S. Constitution treated slaves as part of a person.

At one point, the victim allegedly had a “U” shaped bike lock placed around his neck and was not set free for as long as 10 minutes. A struggle occurred after the suspects tried to place the victim in the bike lock again and bruised his lip.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/21/hate-crimes-charges-after-students-fasten-bike-lock-around-black-roommates-neck-and-call-him-three-fifths/

[NYC_SKP]

1. I'd ban them from the state university system, give them a year in jail.

This is fucking bullshit in this day and age and in a supposedly progressive part of a supposedly progressive state.

Fuck that shit.

What are we, moving backwards in race equality???

[elleng]

4. Yes, SKP,

with you.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. These are people in college?

They need to be sent back to repeat every grade before they're allowed back in college.

[Rex]

3. They have a solid career in politics with the GOP.

nt.

[Starry Messenger]

5. Especially since all three perps were from CA.

I'd love to know more background on these assholes.

[KamaAina]

8. Two are from the Central Valley, where this crap is still not uncommon

but the third is from latte-sucking Marin!

Colin Warren, 18, of the Marin County town of Woodacre, Logan Beaschler, 18, of Bakersfield and Joseph Bomgardner, 19, of Clovis (Fresno County) have each been charged with a misdemeanor hate crime and battery for incidents at their on-campus suite that targeted a then-17-year-old student.

[TBF]

9. So these were adults harassing a minor? nt

[Le Taz Hot]

11. Yes, it is uncommon

here in the Central Valley. Blame the individuals, blame the parents but don't blame an entire region.

[KamaAina]

13. The police chief of Fresno had "Mammy's Little Baby Loves Short'nin' Bread" as his ring tone

for an African American city councilmember.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=141x39585

A lawsuit, filed in Fresno Superior Court on Thursday (February 24, 2011), says that Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer’s ringtone for Cynthia Sterling, an African-American former counsel member is a slave song: "Mammy's little baby loves short'nin' bread." The lawsuit also alleges that Dyer mimic's stereotypical slave dialect, making comments including; "yessa massa, I is yo pet" and "Um hum, I'm the mayor's boy, I'm the mayor's boy, yes'um, I'm the mayor's boy".

Dyer is alleged to have repeatedly made derogatory and racial comments and/or actions relating to different races, including, but not limited to African-Americans and Japanese, which include:

1. "You know brothers can't resist watermelons"
2. "You know brothers love melons"
3. Routinely refers to African-Americans as "Brothers"
4. During a meeting discussing fist strikes to the face, Dyer commented that fist strikes to the face should never occur, unless it is a brother, because brothers don't have bones in their noses.”
5. Dyer’s cellular phone ring tone for Blong Xiong, a Southeast Asian counsel member is an Oriental sounding ringtone.
6. Dyer refers to a female Japanese Police Department employee as his little Geisha Girl.
7. Dyer makes offensive and demeaning comments about women, including but
not limited to:

a) comments about police department employees clothes and cleavage

b) commenting that the employee, must be out looking for a husband.

C) comments about certain female police department employees never having to pay for drinks when they go out socially.
8. Dyer has made offensive remarks, relating to charging the County of Fresno an administrative fee for administering a grant, stating "Good, rape them, (laughing), and make them feel they liked it".
9. Dyer on numerous occasions, has demeaningly referred to City Hall being run like a "sorority", since the Mayor and her chiefs of staff are primarily women.
10. The Deputy City Manager required Police Department employees to place their hands upon Chief Dyer and pray over him in order to cast away evil spirits while at City Hall.

The one for the Southeast Asian councilmember probably sounded something like this:

I didn't say it was rampant, merely that it has a tendency to pop up from time to time out there.

[Le Taz Hot]

16. Blame the individuals, blame the parents

but don't blame the region. EVERY area has racism pop up from time to time, selective research notwithstanding.

[KamaAina]

18. Well, you do have a point

for some time to come, the Google result for "California racists" will be San Jose.

[Le Taz Hot]

22. Yes I do.

And I quote: "Two are from the Central Valley, where this crap is still not uncommon." Since I actually live here, I thought it important to point out that this kind of racism is uncommon. I think it's unfair that because of 3 bad-acting individuals a whole entire region should be pained with the same broad brush. It's unfair, it's inaccurate and it's a kind of geographical elitism with which I take exception.

[Blue_Tires]

12. Maybe it's not so much where they are from...

but what kind of parenting and household they grew up in...

[Le Taz Hot]

17. The only Confederate Flat I've ever seen

in California was in Pismo Beach. It would never occur to me to make a statement about an entire region based on what one idiot chose to put on his dune buggy.

[Posteritatis]

6. Any outcome that includes those students still attending the school is inadequate. (nt)

[postulater]

7. THEY are the sub-humans.

Inexcusable behavior.

[ZombieHorde]

10. Isn't life hard enough without this shit? nt

[Gothmog]

14. These kids need some serious help

These stunts were not pranks

[blkmusclmachine]

15. Rebel Flag = Jim Crow = segregation = overt racism/bigotry

[mythology]

19. I think once it crosses into criminal activity

it ceases to be hazing.

[Go Vols]

20. Another reason not to go to Calif.

Flag waving racist everywhere.Hell,its condoned in school.

[woolldog]

21. You're thinking of the south.

not California.