“YOU N*GGER LOVER!” RACIST THUGS BRUTALLY BEAT INTERRACIAL COUPLE
Federal prosecutors in Sacramento are once again taking on what they describe as a particularly flagrant hate crime.
An indictment returned Jan. 16 by a grand jury and unsealed last week accuses three Yuba County men of an unprovoked attack on a couple because the man is white and the woman is black.
The indictment charges Perry Sylvester Jackson, 27, Billy James Hammett, 28, and Anthony Merrell Tyler, 32, all of Olivehurst, with one count of conspiracy and two counts of beating the couple in 2011.
The charges are grounded in the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.
Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a 2009 amendment to a statute that
criminalizes violence motivated by race, color, national origin,
religion, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity.
Jackson, Hammett and Tyler were arrested by FBI agents last week and pleaded not guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd. Heading the case for the government is Assistant U.S. Attorney R. Steven Lapham, a supervisor in the U.S. attorney’s office and one of its top prosecutors.
Hate crimes tend to be more violent, Lapham said, because they are
not meant to temporarily incapacitate. More often than not, he said,
they brutally inflict serious, sometimes lasting injuries.
A classic example, the prosecutor indicated, is what happened late on the night of April 18, 2011, when a car occupied by the white man and two black women pulled into the parking lot of the Full Stop Market in Linda, where Jackson, Hammett, seen below, and Tyler happened to be “hanging out.”
The indictment, which identifies the male victim as “R.C.,” the
driver as “S.L.,” and the second woman as “G.W.,” recounts this
description of the incident:
In an attempt to distract the occupants of the now-parked car, Hammett quickly approached the driver’s side, calling her a “n—–.”
Jackson charged up to the passenger side calling the man a “n—– lover,” reached through the car’s open window and punched R.C.
Hammett opened the driver’s door, kicked S.L. and struck her in the head. Jackson opened the front passenger door and, when R.C. exited the car, Jackson knocked him to the ground, continued to pummel him, and with Hammett pursued him when he fled.
Meanwhile, the indictment says, Tyler smashed the windshield
of the car with a crowbar, swung it at R.C. as he lay on the ground and
then joined the pursuit of R.C. Tyler referred to G.W. as a “n—–.”
A parking lot surveillance camera captured the 90-second attack without sound. After the three were arrested in 2011 by Yuba County sheriff’s officers, Hammett was a fugitive for 15 months, court papers show.
Those papers say he has an affiliation with white supremacists,
multiple parole violations and no known steady employment or significant
community ties. In April 2006, court records show, Hammett was
sentenced to six years in prison for beating a black man. “He’s not a
threat to society,” Reichel insisted.
“He is associated with the white power movement,” Lapham countered. “He is motivated by skin color. That’s more dangerous than greed.”
SOURCE: SACRAMENTOBEE
An indictment returned Jan. 16 by a grand jury and unsealed last week accuses three Yuba County men of an unprovoked attack on a couple because the man is white and the woman is black.
The indictment charges Perry Sylvester Jackson, 27, Billy James Hammett, 28, and Anthony Merrell Tyler, 32, all of Olivehurst, with one count of conspiracy and two counts of beating the couple in 2011.
Jackson, Hammett and Tyler were arrested by FBI agents last week and pleaded not guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dale A. Drozd. Heading the case for the government is Assistant U.S. Attorney R. Steven Lapham, a supervisor in the U.S. attorney’s office and one of its top prosecutors.
A classic example, the prosecutor indicated, is what happened late on the night of April 18, 2011, when a car occupied by the white man and two black women pulled into the parking lot of the Full Stop Market in Linda, where Jackson, Hammett, seen below, and Tyler happened to be “hanging out.”
In an attempt to distract the occupants of the now-parked car, Hammett quickly approached the driver’s side, calling her a “n—–.”
Jackson charged up to the passenger side calling the man a “n—– lover,” reached through the car’s open window and punched R.C.
Hammett opened the driver’s door, kicked S.L. and struck her in the head. Jackson opened the front passenger door and, when R.C. exited the car, Jackson knocked him to the ground, continued to pummel him, and with Hammett pursued him when he fled.
A parking lot surveillance camera captured the 90-second attack without sound. After the three were arrested in 2011 by Yuba County sheriff’s officers, Hammett was a fugitive for 15 months, court papers show.
“He is associated with the white power movement,” Lapham countered. “He is motivated by skin color. That’s more dangerous than greed.”
SOURCE: SACRAMENTOBEE
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