Police: Student marked with 'KKK' at school for deaf

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

A weekend incident with racial overtones at a high school for deaf students could result in criminal charges with "enhanced penalties for a hate crime," Metro Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Wednesday.

A black student was held against his will and then released with "KKK" and swastikas drawn on him in marker at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf on Sunday, she said.

No charges have been filed, and no names have been released, Lanier added.

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The incident began when a group of black students and a group of white students were in a dorm. "My understanding is the two groups engaged in friendly horseplay," she said.

But, she said, the groups got "angry with each other."




Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/04/deafschool.racial.incident/index.html

[ananda]

1. God that's awful!

I keep wondering what kind of parents kids like that have had,
to become so unhuman and hate-filled.

[dogfacedboy]

2. Stupid hillbillie parents, that's what kind. n/t

[piedmont]

7. Racism is certainly not confined to "hillbillies."

To think so underestimates the scope of the problem.

[dogfacedboy]

9. No, it's not, but you can't deny that they're a part of it. n/t

[Kelvin Mace]

3. *IF* true

(let's not forget the "Tawana Brawley" case), then the students involved should be expelled and prosecuted. It's all fun and games until someone winds up lynched.

[Heywood J]

4. That's pretty fucking stupid.

How dumb do you have to be to know that writing KKK on someone, much less a black student, is not a good idea? It ranks right up there with holding your own hand in the fire and wondering why it hurts.

Sounds like someone needs to repeat a few grades.

[KamaAina]

5. I can't believe I'm actually reading this...

The groups in the competition, the source said, showed poor judgment by giving themselves the names "Nazi" group versus the "Black KKK" group in a "war game competition."

"Nazi group"? Un-freakin'-believable. And this at a school for students who are Deaf! It so happens that Hitler massacred thousands upon thousands of people with disabilities before turning his attention to the Jews. As for 'Black KKK", well, words fail me.

And the kicker:

The two groups separated, she said, but later six white students and one black student took another of the black students into a dorm room and "held him there against his will."

What on Earth could this one black student possibly have been thinking?! :wtf:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

6. Well, look at all those black "reporters" that support "*"

and can't see anything wrong with being a Repug :eyes:

[superconnected]

8. Sounds like the school is being pretty quiet about the incident.