BOARD URGES PROSECUTION OF HATE SUSPECTS; REJECT PLEA DEALS, COUNTY SUPERVISORS SAY.Byline: City News Service County supervisors urged the District Attorney's Office Tuesday against making plea offers to two reputed skinheads Noun 1. skinheads - a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks charged with attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. for an attack on an African-American Wal-Mart employee in Lancaster. ``Vicious, hate-inspired assaults have no place in our society and those who perpetrate per·pe·trate tr.v. per·pe·trat·ed, per·pe·trat·ing, per·pe·trates To be responsible for; commit: perpetrate a crime; perpetrate a practical joke. such crimes need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,'' said Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San , whose massive Fifth District includes Lancaster. Antonovich proposed the motion, which was passed on a 3-0 vote. Supervisors Don Knabe and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke were absent. Sandi Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
Shaun Lee Broderick, 19, of Newhall and Christopher Crawford, 25, of Lancaster have pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. by means likely to produce great bodily injury. Investigators allege that the two attacked Nathaniel Harris, 20, after he spoke to a white woman with them in a Wal-Mart parking lot about 11:30 p.m. last Tuesday. Authorities allege Broderick used a claw hammer on Harris and tried to run over him with a car. Harris was gathering shopping carts in the lot on Valley Central Way when he spotted a young woman he thought he knew from high school and began talking to her, authorities said. He was unaware that the two men with her were skinheads. Authorities say the two men became enraged en·rage tr.v. en·raged, en·rag·ing, en·rag·es To put into a rage; infuriate. [Middle English *enragen, from Old French enrager : en-, causative pref. and that Broderick got a hammer from a car and told Harris he was going to kill him. The suspects may be members of the Nazi Low Riders, according to prosecutors. Harris was hit in the upper body with the hammer and punched by the second man, investigators said. A Wal-Mart security guard pulled the men off Harris, who was treated at a hospital for minor injuries. Deputies who stopped Broderick and Crawford found ``white power'' slogans scribbled on a notebook in the car and a swastika etched on a flashlight, authorities said. They also found Nazi-style tattoos on one of the suspects. |
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