TEEN INJURED IN RACIAL BEATING WINS JUDGMENT.Byline: Daily News SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. -- An African-American teenager who was attacked two years ago by white teens at a Simi Valley shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into has been awarded $144,000 in a civil-suit judgment against three of the attackers. The fourth attacker previously agreed to pay $25,000 to the victim, Jimmy King, said King's lawyer, Stephen A. Rodriguez Sr. Superior Court Judge Steven Hintz ruled Nov. 17 that the three defendants in the civil case ``participated in a racially motivated and unprovoked beating'' of King, who was 17 when the assault occurred in December 2004. King, who lived in Reseda at the time, was selling newspaper subscriptions at a shopping center on Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Avenue when he was beaten by the youths, who shouted racial slurs and then kicked him. Three of the attackers were from Simi Valley and one was from Granada Hills. King suffered a dislocated dis·lo·cate tr.v. dis·lo·cat·ed, dis·lo·cat·ing, dis·lo·cates 1. To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship. 2. knee and other injuries in the attack. The attackers, who ranged in age from 14 to 17, were sentenced last year to eight months to nine months in juvenile detention. When the teen who instigated the attack apologized in court in January 2005, King responded, ``I forgive you.'' In the civil suit, Hintz awarded King $92,000 for pain and suffering, $40,000 for future medical expenses and $10,000 in punitive damages Monetary compensation awarded to an injured party that goes beyond that which is necessary to compensate the individual for losses and that is intended to punish the wrongdoer. . |
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