You know they probably just yelled that because they know people around here will just get all bent out of shape over it. It's called pushing your buttons. Doesnt mean anything.

A crime is a crime and the criminals should be brought to justice. Just because the epethet doesn't mean anything doesn't excuse the behavior of beating someone up. With people cracking jokes about prisoner abuse, it is little wonder that this type of behaviour occurs.
Of course sending these people to jail would probably further perpetuate the same thing anyway. There is no easy way out. This is why negotiation should be taught before seeing rampant destruction on TV. Negotiation just wasn't sexy enough for the perps of this crime.

so if they shouted "black power" you would be ok with this? (that's ok they where just expressing them selves) after all we need to understand diffrent ways of thinking, we have to reach out to these young men and show tollerance...........

this is why criminals love to come to santa cruze!

I'm not ok with what happened and making it happen with different words, but the same actions, would not make it better. What would make it better would be to find a way to prevent this from happening in the first place. That can only happen if people learn to think positively instead of taking out their negativity on other people, as mushy as that sounds.

The Black Panthers were good at reaching out to their communities and weren't too mushy about it either.

That can only happen if people learn to think positively

(feeling gooie) why yes all this warm and fuzzie feelings are going to keep criminals out of SC
(EYES ROLLING)