BALTIMORE (AP) - Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager
while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial
Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed self-defense,
saying the teen was holding a nail-studded board. Local civil rights
activists hope the Martin case will draw more attention to what they
believe was racial profiling by neighborhood watch vigilantes.
Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim are accused of beating a 15-year-old boy
who was walking through a Baltimore neighborhood in November 2010. The
brothers pulled up next to the teen in a vehicle, then got out and
"surrounded him," according to charging documents. The passenger threw
the teen to the ground and the driver hit him in the head with a
hand-held radio and patted him down.
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1 comment:
Sounds like those idiots will be spending some much deserved time in the slammer. How do these clowns think they have a right to detain a private citizen walking down the street? And then they have the nerve to holler "self-defense" when that person they are trying to detain decides to fight back.
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