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27th January 2012

Link reblogged from From The Skerries with 275 notes

Black Teen Forced Into Noose Over White Girl: Cops - 3 Chicago teens busted for hate crime, assault →

iggyjack:

(NEWSER) – Three Chicago teenagers have been arrested after placing a noose around a black student’s neck at knifepoint because of his relationship with a white girl, according to law enforcement authorities. “I feel they were serious, and that if I didn’t get out of the house when I did, I might not even be here. I might be dead,” Joshua Merritt, 17, told the Chicago Tribune. The three students, ages 16 to 18, have been hit with a variety of charges, including hate crimes, unlawful restraint, assault, and battery. The girl at the center of the confrontation is the cousin of one of the teens. The assault occurred at his house, and his mother is an administrative worker in the Cook County state attorney’s office, said police.

Merritt said the girl is a friend, but that they aren’t dating. He said he was invited to the student’s home by a friend, who was one of the three teens. After he arrived the trio began using racial slurs and one put a rope around his neck, while another held a knife to his neck and threatened to kill him, he said. “I couldn’t believe that they were doing this,” said Merritt. “I just felt trapped.”

Something like this could have happened to me when I lived in Pottsville, PA during the first O.J. Simpson trial.

Source: chicagotribune.com

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    don’t anyone ever say some shit to me about white history month. ever.
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    I really can’t believe that I am reading this in this day and age, and its about young people as well O.o.
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    Why is shit like this still happening? I know nothing any of us can do will make up for living through that harassment,...
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    Poor kid. Some people are sick
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    White people!!! I got a question… Do you still think we are in a post racial society?
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    I want to give the young man a hug, how traumatizing (to say the least). :(
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    UGH this makes me so angrryyyy
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    they should also be charged with attempted murder just saying… because if the shoe was on the other foot it would have...
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    waiting for the rest of this story. wonder how the whiteness and status of these criminals will affect their judgement…
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    this is really upsetting :(
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    In this day and age? Interracial relationships are still a no-no? WTF!?
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