News Roundup for August 16, 2011
Four self-described white supremacists in Houston for brutally beating a black man at a bus stop. The Harris County district attorney is receiving criticism for not charging the men, members of the Aryan Brotherhood, with a hate crime.
An Arizona man implicated in the home-invasion murder of a Latino man and his daughter to two life terms in prison, one without parole. Albert Gaxiola was convicted for his role in the murder of Brisenia and Raul Flores in a robbery designed to fund the anti-immigrant Minuteman American Defense organization.
Police in Oklahoma for a militiaman accused of raping a 7-year-old family member. Charles Dyer, a former Marine and online figure known as the 鈥淛uly 4 Patriot,鈥� missed a court hearing on Monday and then sent an E-mail to his attorney stating that if he is not heard from in 90 days, he is dead. A nationwide manhunt is now under way for Dyer.
A man implicated in a potential hate crime committed on Friday in Santa Barbara . Ryan Christopher Zietlow-Brown was arrested and charged with attempted murder for stabbing an African-American man with a pair of scissors as he walked down the street with a white man.
