Three white college students guilty of battery of black freshman, but not hate crime
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Three former San Jose State University students have been convicted of misdemeanor battery for bullying a black roommate by putting a bicycle lock around his neck and taunting him with racial slurs...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Three former San Jose State University students have been convicted of misdemeanor battery for bullying a black roommate by putting a bicycle lock around his neck and taunting him with racial slurs.
But interim campus president Sue Martin said in a statement that a Santa Clara County jury deadlocked on the hate crime charges faced by two of the defendants and acquitted the third of a hate crime.
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The harassment of the black freshman by his white suitemates came to light in fall 2013 after the student’s parents visited him and saw a Confederate flag and a dry erase board with a racial epithet written on it in their dorm suite.
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The white students subsequently were expelled from San Jose State.
The bullied student has sued the university.
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