Here in New York, four white males have been charged for a string of hate crimes in the hours after Barack Obama won the presidency. According to police, the four men drove around Staten Island black neighborhoods on election night looking for victims to attack. A black Muslim teenager was beaten with a baseball bat, sending him to the hospital. They also attacked another black man, a Hispanic man, and drove down a white man they thought was an African American. The man spent more than a month in a coma. Police say they nabbed the suspects after a mammoth search involving fifteen investigators.
4 Charged in Election Night Hate Crimes
HeadlineJan 14, 2009