Obama's America: 3 nice white men arrested for innocent and well intentioned pranks

[mota bhai 2,675]

SAN JOSE -- First, his white roommates nicknamed him "Three-fifths," referring to the way the government once counted blacks as just a fraction of a person. When he protested, they dubbed him "Fraction."

Then they outfitted the four-bedroom dormitory suite they shared with a Confederate flag. They locked him in his room. They wrote the "N-word" on a dry-erase board in the living room. They fastened a bicycle lock around his neck and told him they lost the keys, then tried it again a few weeks later.

It may sound like something out of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. But police reports indicate it happened last month in the Obama era to a black student at San Jose State University.

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Late Wednesday, prosecutors filed misdemeanor hate-crime and battery charges against three of the student's roommates over the alleged hazing ... The men are Logan Beaschler, 18, of Bakersfield; Joseph Bomgardner, 19, of Clovis; and Colin Warren, 18, of Woodacre.

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The young men acknowledged during police interviews that they incessantly harassed the then-17-year-old, according to the reports. But they downplayed the incidents as mere "pranks" and "jokes," denying their actions were racist.

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Investigators also found Nazi symbols in the apartment, including a picture of Adolf Hitler, the "SS" lightning bolt symbol and a swastika. They also discovered pictures of pentagrams, apparently intended to alarm the freshman, who is Christian.

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_24566367/san-jose-state-students-charged-hate-crime

[GandD 5,966]

Jerks

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Ow lord, please don't start the race stuff. Now we will have people posting how this kid deserved this treatment because of TM.

Let's make a pledge of no race stuff today. I like the funny articles.

[mota bhai 2,675]

Ow lord, please don't start the race stuff. Now we will have people posting how this kid deserved this treatment because of TM.

Let's make a pledge of no race stuff today. I like the funny articles.

You can kid around about race, you know. No reason race can't be funny.

[B_J 2,752]

Ow lord, please don't start the race stuff. Now we will have people posting how this kid deserved this treatment because of TM.

Let's make a pledge of no race stuff today. I like the funny articles.

If only he had been armed, he could have stopped this treatment.

Just trying to steer away from race.

[GandD 5,966]

Know your audience and your limits.

[mota bhai 2,675]

Know your audience and your limits.

Limits are for jive suckaz.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

If only he had been armed, he could have stopped this treatment.

Just trying to steer away from race.

Ooooo,

if he would have been armed. This is a good one. Do you think they allow bazookas on college campuses?

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Just from their names they seem like losers. Logan?? Colin?? And Joe from Clovis?? Is this real life?

[B_J 2,752]

Ooooo,

if he would have been armed. This is a good one. Do you think they allow bazookas on college campuses?

But seriously, one thing in the article that bothered me was the President of the local NAACP referring to this as bullying. This was criminal; not bullying.

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Ooooo,

if he would have been armed. This is a good one. Do you think they allow bazookas on college campuses?

The University of Pakistan in Quetta does...

[mota bhai 2,675]

But seriously, one thing in the article that bothered me was the President of the local NAACP referring to this as bullying. This was criminal; not bullying.

Everyone uses that word for everything these days. It has lost all meaning.

[GandD 5,966]

No better way to be taught a lesson than being shot in the face. Am I right?

[B_J 2,752]

No better way to be taught a lesson than being shot in the face. Am I right?

Imagine them trying to wrestle him down so they can put the lock around his neck and he goes George Zimmerman on them. I would enjoy that a lot.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

But seriously, one thing in the article that bothered me was the President of the local NAACP referring to this as bullying. This was criminal; not bullying.

Yea it was. College kids do so many silly things that ruin themselves so early in their college years.

The University of Pakistan in Quetta does...