No. 2 Klan group on trial in Ky. teen's beating

[Roland99]

Source: Associated Press

DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. (AP) -- The 28-acre compound that the nation's second-largest Ku Klux Klan outfit calls home features a high gate with armed guards, a stage for the group's annual gatherings and an open field for burning crosses.

The Southern Poverty Law Center wants to take it all away.

On these tranquil grounds amid western Kentucky's low, rolling hills, the Imperial Klans of America incited members to severely beat a Latino teen at a county fair, the civil rights group contends in a lawsuit. The center hopes its case will bankrupt this Klan group, a tactic the center has used to decimate other racist organizations.

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The case stems from a 2006 attack on Jordan Gruver that left the teen with two cracked ribs, a broken left forearm, cuts and bruises. The center claims Jarred Hensley of Cincinnati and Andrew Watkins of Louisville were recruiting on behalf of the Klan at the Meade County fair, about two hours east of their headquarters, and attacked Gruver because he is Latino.

"They targeted and viciously beat our client solely because he has brown skin," Cohen said, declining to specify what the Imperial Klans or Imperial Wizard Ron Edwards might have done to trigger the attack.

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. Great!! Bankrupt those SOBs!!!!!!

[bulloney]

2. McCain and Palin's base this election.

[ShockediSay]

3. Careful there, white supremacists, you are soon to be outnumbered

if not already.

What comes around, goes around.

[silverojo]

4. They're already outnumbered

By the white NON-supremacists. :rofl: