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Hate Crime in Little Five Points

By AAN Staff
april 23, 2002  11:25 am
Hate Crime in Little Five Points
You wouldn't think this could still happen, especially in one of Atlanta's rapidly gentrifying hip neighborhoods -- Little Five Points. But apparently racial hate is still alive and well in Atlanta. Three white supremacist drifters from California allegedly jumped two African-American brothers and beat them savagely. Creative Loafing Atlanta got the story first. Mara Shalhoup talked to the young men's mother and eyewitnesses and then tipped the author of Georgia's hate crime law, state Sen. Vincent Fort. The three alleged assailants are charged with aggravated battery and reckless conduct, and the police are investigating it as a hate crime. "It's horrendous," police spokesman Lt. John Quigley tells Shalhoup.
View full article at Creative Loafing (Atlanta)