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07/18/00
Proposition 21 Backfires:
District Attorney arraigns White teenagers
in vicious migrant beating attack
Clubhouse where teens met. Police hesitant to call attack "gang-related"
or classify as hate crime.
by Victor Payan
Pocho Migrant Worker Beat Reporter
San Diego - San Diego Police officers have arrested seven white teens, ranging
in ages from 14 to 17, and are still searching for an eighth suspect in
relation to a vicious July 5 beating and shooting attack against five elderly
Mexican migrant workers in San Diego's North County.
A spokesman for the District Attorney's office stated that the teens will
be tried as adults under the stipulations of the controversial Proposition
21, which was overwhelmingly passed by California voters earlier this year.
"Let's not get carried away," said Bob Boso, a lawyer for the
suspects. "It would be an injustice to try these mere children as adults.
I mean, these kids are white, right? From good homes? Right? Hello?"
Police said the teens armed themselves with rapid-fire air pistols, pipes
and other weapons, then packed into a small white station wagon and carried
out the twilight attacks.*
"I thought they were going on a paper route," said the father
of one of the suspects.
"They told me they were going to celebrate the Fourth of July American-style,"
said the parent of another.
San Diego Police surveillance teams said they saw the youths loitering in
an abandoned trailer near where the attacks occurred. The words "We're
still here," "KKK," "Jesus loves U" and racial
epithets aimed at Mexicans were painted on the walls of the trailer and
an adjoining camper. A red and yellow swastika was also painted on a nearby
fence.*
"We have uncovered some cryptic evidence possibly suggesting that this
could perhaps be hate crime related and may even be potentially linked to
probable gang activity," said SDPD spokesman Harry Nalgas, "but
since the suspects are white and have wealthy parents, we can't be jumping
to conclusions."
Police recovered a bloodied pitchfork, a wooden stake, a wooden dowel, a
metal pipe and a steel bar used by the assailants to beat the victims, one
of whom was chased, dragged into the bushes and beaten savagely. They also
seized three air rifles, one air pellet rapid-fire pistol, one .303- caliber
rifle and one .22-caliber revolver during a roundup of the suspects at several
upscale Rancho Peñasquitos residences*
Officer Nalgas said that the SDPD is alarmed by this attack, warning that
it is against the law for anyone who is not a police officer to viciously
beat minorities, migrants, elderly Mexicans orpoorly-paid wage laborers.
"We cannot tolerate this kind of rampant vigilantism," said Nalgas.
"Anyone who thinks they should have a free license to beat and shoot
minorities has to go through the academy just like the rest of us."
© 2000 Victor Payan
* This is true. |
