Police: White supremacists beat black DJ in Lynnwood bar
LYNNWOOD — At least eight people with alleged white supremacist ties are accused of stomping a DJ at a Lynnwood-area bar while shouting racial slurs, according to police reports.
One man began using the DJ’s gear without permission around 12:30 a.m. Saturday at the Rec Room Bar & Grill north of Lynnwood on Highway 99, the court papers say. The DJ, an African-American man from Everett, tried to stop the man but was overwhelmed by a group of white men. He turned off the music and told the men to leave.
“The gang members refused and surrounded” the DJ, the police reports say. “The white supremacist gang members then threatened to beat (him).”
Seven men and one woman were booked into the Snohomish County Jail. In a news release Monday, the sheriff’s office described them as “self-professed members of a neo-Nazi skinhead group.” At least two were released from Washington state prisons this year.
The men called the 37-year-old DJ the N-word, beat him to the ground and stomped him, police reports say. The attackers allegedly said, “We will see you, (N-word),” and “It’s over for you.”
The DJ “was in complete fear for his life,” a sheriff’s deputy wrote in the report. The DJ suffered a swollen left eye that would barely open and other injuries from the beating. Another Everett man, 35, who is Asian-American, was assaulted too, deputies said.
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