The Long Beach Halloween Hate Crime
by James Buchanan
Three young White women went to a haunted house on Halloween, 2006. On their way to the haunted house, a Black teenage male, grabbed his crotch and shouted “Are you up with it?” Unfortunately the girls didn’t take this as a sign to get out of the area immediately. They went to the haunted house. On the way out, they were obscenely accosted by the same Black male. As they tried to get away from a group of Blacks, they were attacked. An estimated 30 Blacks (the Black man who accosted them and a group of Black girls) attacked the three White girls. The Blacks were shouting “F—ing White whores.”
One news article reports “The case stemmed from last year’s Halloween attack in the city’s affluent Bixby Knolls section, which is noted for its elaborate Halloween decorations. Witnesses said black youths yelled racial insults and beat two 19-year-old white women and a 21-year-old. One woman had more than a dozen facial fractures and is recovering from reconstruction surgery. Another was knocked unconscious and then beaten with the skateboard, punched and kicked. In January eight Long Beach girls and one man, ages 13 to 18, were convicted of felony assault and eight of them also were convicted of a hate-crime enhancement. They were sentenced to probation and house arrest after spending about three months in custody during their trials.” (more…)