1.0 link 39917 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/its-a-hate-crime-so-where_b_39917.html It was a fairly horrific scene. Long Beach, California: On a public street, in the dark of night on Halloween, a gang of about thirty youths beat three girls ages nineteen and twenty one. One of the girls was battered so severely she will require ongoing surgery to repair multiple fractures around her face and to reposition one of her eyes. That there were taunts alluding to the girls' race and gender made the beating fall under the special circumstances...

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