On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:18:43 -0500, "J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com>
wrote:

You know the old saying: "You can take the
boy out of the jungle, but you
can't take the jungle out of the boy".

Racist Christians like J Young express their hatred against people
with different skin colors and then act surprised when the following
happens.

2 men charged in hate crime

By Sara Jean Green
Seattle Times staff reporter

Two 19-year-old white men accused of beating a 14-year-old
African-American boy on his walk home from school have been charged
with a hate crime.

King County prosecutors on Tuesday charged Cory R. Stewart of Seattle
and Colin J. Kelly of Bothell with malicious harassment, the state's
felony charge for a hate crime. A third man who was allegedly involved
in the incident has not been charged, but police are investigating his
role, according to prosecutors' spokesman Dan Donohoe.

The malicious-harassment charges are the first to be filed in the
county this year.

On April 28, the 14-year-old was walking home from his Ballard middle
school with five friends - four girls and a boy, according to charging
papers. As the group of eighth-graders was walking in the 9000 block
of Mary Avenue Northwest, they passed by three white men who were
standing near a car, drinking alcohol, the papers say.

Stewart allegedly invited the girls to participate in sex acts that
might be videotaped, charging papers say. According to prosecutors,
the girls ignored Stewart and kept walking.

Hearing the lewd comments directed at his friends, prosecutors said,
the teen asked Stewart to leave the girls alone. Stewart allegedly
used a racial slur and followed the teen as he walked away, charging
papers say.

Stewart is then accused of attacking the youth, punching him in the
head and face, the papers say. Kelly allegedly joined in the assault
and all three - Stewart, Kelly and the victim - fell to the ground,
where witnesses said Stewart and Kelly continued to beat and kick the
youth, charging papers say.

The teen's male friend tried to come to his aid and was punched in the
face by Kelly, the papers say. Kelly also was charged Tuesday with
fourth-degree assault, a gross misdemeanor, for hitting the friend.

Investigators say Stewart and Kelly "maliciously and intentionally"
assaulted the youth "because of their perception ... of his race,"
charging papers say.

Stewart and Kelly are both out of custody but are to be booked into
the King County Jail on $10,000 bail when they are arraigned May 16,
Donohoe said.

"This was an unprovoked attack on a 14-year-old," King County
Prosecutor Norm Maleng said in a news release. "Our
malicious-harassment law is designed for this type of incident, and
hate crimes will not be tolerated in our community."

Mike Hogan, the King County deputy prosecutor who reviews all cases
referred to his office involving suspected hate crimes, said the
malicious-harassment charges against Stewart and Kelly are the first
to be filed this year. Hogan filed malicious-harassment charges in
five cases in 2005, and five in 2004. There were 11 cases filed in
2002, 11 in 2003 and seven in 2001, he said.

According to state law, malicious harassment is an attack motivated by
a perception of someone's race, color, religion, ancestry, national
origin, sexual orientation, gender, or disability and results in
physical injury, property damage or threats that would place a
reasonable person in fear of harm.

Malicious harassment is a Class C felony and carries a maximum
sentence of five years in prison.