White Man pleads guilty to battery in 'hate crime' attack on Black Teenagers

Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at 03:09AM
TheSpook

Mario McGrew said he is satisfied with Jeromy C. Kendall's guilty plea to two counts of battery. The plea helps to bring closure to an incident two years ago that police had described as a hate crime. On Aug. 10, 2002, McGrew and a friend, Sidney Hockaday, who are black, said they were riding their bikes through the parking lot of the Campus Square shopping center when three white men hollered racist comments at them. McGrew and Hockaday, who were about to start their senior year at Adams High School at the time, stopped to ask the men what their problem was. The men then reportedly attacked the teens. The teens said they took off their belts and used them to defend themselves. One of their assailants took McGrew's belt, put it around his neck, "and I was told I could be hung,'' McGrew said after the incident. [more ]

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