Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:02:29 GMT From: "Glenn" <spridlenopsamnet> Subject: Re: Hate Crime with a twist
And what does this have to do with Toyota or cars in general? Doc Holiday wrote in message <8fs626$pif$1nopsamdoo.fr>... > >Here's a "high profile" Hate Crime you may or may not have heard about. >Looks like a "high profile" brudtha is goin' to da pen, or will he? Whether >he does or doesn't though, this White separatist says: Nice shot bro! > > > >Penn State quarterback charged with >beating cop >05/15/00 >By Josh Margolin >STAFF WRITER >Penn State University quarterback Rashard Casey was arrested in his >hometown of Hoboken early yesterday on charges that he beat a police officer >unconscious because the cop, who is white, was out with a black woman, >authorities said. >Casey, 22, a Star-Ledger First Team All-State selection from Hoboken High >School in 1995 who led Penn State to a 24-0 victory over Texas A&M >University in the 1999 Alamo Bowl, was charged with aggravated assault. He >was being held at the Hudson County jail on $5,000 bail last night, police >said. >Also charged with aggravated assault was Desmond Miller, 22, a high school >teammate of Casey who now lives in Jersey City, police said. Miller was also >being held at the county jail on $20,000 bail. >The officer, Patrick Fitzsimmons, 34, was admitted to St. Mary's Hospital in >Hoboken with injuries to his head and face. He was released later yesterday, >authorities said. >Casey and Miller are to be arraigned in state Superior Court in Jersey City >at >10 a.m. today. >A third former member of the Hoboken football team, Keeon Walker, a Star- >Ledger First Team All-State selection in 1997 who now plays for Syracuse >University, tried to intervene in the attack, Hoboken Police Chief Carmen >LaBruno said. But Walker could not stop Casey and Miller from pounding the >officer's head into the sidewalk, LaBruno said. >Walker, who turns 20 today, was not arrested, but was questioned by police >and may be brought back in once investigators gather more evidence, >LaBruno said. >Walker could not be reached for comment last night. >"Apparently, Miller, Casey and (Walker) took exception to the fact that the >officer was white and he was with a black woman," LaBruno said. "Apparently, >words were exchanged. We anticipate further charges, one of which will be a >bias charge." >The three players are black. >Fitzsimmons, who has been on the Hoboken police force for five years, was >off >duty and unarmed at the time of the incident, LaBruno said. >"He's significantly hurt," LaBruno said. "He needs facial surgery." >Reached at his home last night, Fitzsimmons declined to comment. >The incident occurred about 2:40 a.m. outside River Street, a nightclub near >the PATH station, LaBruno said. Fitzsimmons and the woman, who was not >identified, had gone out to dinner and then stopped at the club for a drink, >LaBruno said. >The three men were in the club, the chief said. The trio had been drinking, >according to statements gathered by police. They knew Fitzsimmons from the >neighborhood and were aware he is a cop, LaBruno said. >The five left the club at about the same time, though not together, LaBruno >said. Words were exchanged when they got outside and then Casey and Miller >jumped the officer, LaBruno said. >The chief said Walker tried to intervene and "told them that that was a >police >officer." >LaBruno said there were three eyewitnesses, including an off-duty Jersey >City >police officer. >Fitzsimmons, the brother of police Lt. James Fitzsimmons, a former Hoboken >city council president, is assigned to the community-policing division >where, >among other things, he teaches tolerance training as part of the >department's >efforts to control bias crimes, the chief said. >LaBruno yesterday warned anyone who might try to get the criminal-justice >system to go easy on Casey because of his on-field abilities. >"Because this guy is big time, I'm sure there'll be people looking out for >his >best interest. If there is any intervention by anybody, I will look to >indict on >obstruction charges," LaBruno said. >Casey will be a fifth-year senior this fall and is the projected starting >quarterback. He is featured on the cover of Penn State's annual football >guide >and was the starter in the team's spring game. >Casey's first start for Penn State came last Dec. 28, when he passed for one >touchdown and ran for a second in the Nittany Lions' victory in the Alamo >Bowl >in San Antonio, Texas. >"Penn State obviously is concerned by reports that quarterback Rashard >Casey has been charged in connection with an incident early this morning in >Hoboken, N.J.," Budd Thalman, Penn State's associate athletic director, said >last night. "It would be inappropriate to make a further comment at this >time >until additional facts of the matter are known." >Casey, who led Hoboken to the North Jersey, Section 1, Group 3 titles in >1994 >and 1995, chose Penn State over Syracuse. >Now a tailback at Syracuse, Walker, a Star-Ledger First Team All State >selection in 1997, and a second-team selection in 1996, was a member of >Hoboken's championship teams in 1995 and 1996. One of three offensive >players moved to Syracuse's secondary this spring, Walker is being converted >to strong safety. >Messages left with the Syracuse University athletic department were not >returned yesterday. > > > > >
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