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BlackTerrel
09-11-2009, 06:23 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/nyregion/11bias.html


The white instigator of an election-night rampage against black people in retaliation for President Obama’s victory was sentenced in federal court on Thursday to nine years in prison....

In a guilty plea earlier this year, the ringleader, Ralph Nicoletti of Staten Island, said he and the other defendants grew angry while monitoring election returns on the Internet at a makeshift clubhouse. He said they decided that if Mr. Obama won, they would “go after black people” they assumed had voted for him.

“I was drunk. I was angry,” Mr. Nicoletti said when asked by the judge why he did it.

Prosecutors had accused Mr. Nicoletti, 19, of driving the group to a black neighborhood, where they stopped a Liberian immigrant and beat him with a metal pipe and a police baton...

Scum.