21. September 2005 • Matt Hollerbach
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The Michigan Daily reports today on this shocking instance of racial intimidation:
The incident began when one of the suspects, a 21-year-old, allegedly urinated from a second-floor balcony on two Asian students walking down the 600 block of South Forest Avenue Thursday night.
After the couple asked why they were being urinated on, the suspect and another student reportedly began to use racial slurs disparaging the couple’s Asian heritage.
The situation escalated, according to a police report, when at least one student began throwing items, which the couple suspected were eggs, at the couple.
One of the students was immediately taken into custody. The other student who urinated on the couple, barricaded himself in the apartment, which the police could not enter without a warrant.
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Can any lawyers or police officers out there verify what the law is?
—H.S. Sep. 22 '05 - 01:05AM #
—[libcat] Sep. 22 '05 - 04:23AM #
It also reminds me of what the dirty monkeys and gorillas do from behind the bars in the Detroit Zoo when they are bored.
Perhaps these boneheads might learn something if they were given (among other things) the job of cleaning up the crap from the domino’s petting zoo for community service and be forced to pay high enough fines so that they cannot afford to get drunk and act so stupidly in the near future.
Whatever happens, these ignorant fools are a very bad example of what you might find in a college town like Ann Arbor.
Unfortunately, it IS a sign of the times.
—Bear Sep. 22 '05 - 02:37PM #
By the way, speaking of “racial (or other) violence”, let’s see if we can get UM to pledge to divest from Sudan. EVEN IF they’re totally clean of Sudan stocks right now, how do we know they’ll be tomorrow? ...And at least one divestment group says that even “clean” schools should take the pledge, to send a public message. Sounds good to me.
(Maybe I’ll write Mark Dilley, too…)
—David Boyle Sep. 23 '05 - 01:20AM #
So it’s OK to push divestment from Sudan, on ArborUpdate?
Great!
I say divest from an occupying atomic superpower (Israel), which Uncle Sam has financed to the tune of at lwast $100 billion so far.
—-Blaine. (Palestine) Sep. 23 '05 - 02:17AM #
—[libcat] Sep. 23 '05 - 02:46AM #
And there is much more world consensus about that (the “much worse” part), too.
—David Boyle Sep. 23 '05 - 03:07AM #
That’s not too harsh a lesson, any kid who has grown up on a farm has done worse chores… But I know what is – a public urinator could also face indecent exposure charges if a prosecutor feels so inclined (as in a case such as this). I don’t have a law book open, but I think that’s up to 4 years imprisonment and a spot on the sex offenders list… Lesson learned.
—FAA Sep. 23 '05 - 03:42AM #
—Bil Sep. 23 '05 - 02:13PM #
—Parking Structure Dude! Sep. 23 '05 - 03:19PM #