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Nearly No Consequences For Drunk Executives Who Poured Beer On Native American Children’s Heads
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/22/3682962/lakota-57/by Carimah Townes
At the start of the year, a group of 57 Native Americans students from the Lakota tribe were taken to a minor league hockey match in Rapid City, South Dakota to celebrate their academic achievements. But what started as a field trip to reward the students quickly turned into a nightmare, when a group of drunk men in an executive suite dumped beer on their heads and yelled go back to the Rez!
Seven months later, only one of the perpetrators faces criminal charges. His trial begins today, and if found guilty he will be convicted of disorderly conduct and fined $500 avoiding hate crime charges, a jury, and jail time.
In January, a group of third through eighth grade students from the American Horse School were watching the local hockey team, the Rapid City Rush, before several adults started asking them questions about where they are from. Middle school teacher and head chaperone Consuelo Means alleges she overheard several men sitting in an executive suite above them asking eighth grade girls questions, and immediately asked the students to stop talking to the strangers because they were drunk. The men continued asking questions and when the home team scored, one banged on the wall and told the students to cheer louder because they were from the Rez. Means briefly looked for security for assistance, but when she returned to her seat, she felt something dripping on her head. Looking up, she saw the men dumping beer on three rows of students. When Means alerted the other chaperones and tried to intervene, the perpetrators reportedly yelled at the group to go back to the Rez.
The students left the game shortly after. One girl was crying while the others remained quiet during the drive home to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Allen, South Dakota.
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Nearly No Consequences For Drunk Executives Who Poured Beer On Native American Children’s Heads (Original Post)
swag
Jul 2015
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. Terrible
classof56
(5,376 posts)2. Words fail me except to say...
Shame on such ugly excuses for human beings. Could only hope they'll "get theirs" one of these times, but pretty sure they won't.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)3. "Talking Stick"
This is pathetic.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)4. I remember when this happened.
What utter fuckwads. No hate crime charges?!
niyad
(113,771 posts)5. no hate crime, no child abuse, no nothing? these sick, hate-filled, drunken bastards get off?
disgusting, obscene, outrageous.
progressoid
(50,011 posts)6. Imagine a Native American doing this to some white kids.
He'd be behind bars.
unionthug777
(740 posts)7. being a native american....
I say, put them in the middle of the rez, ......and let them walk home.
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