"...The three members of a group known as East Side White Pride were returning from an evening of recruiting, drinking, and partying. Wearing military jackets, steel-toed boots, and sporting shaved heads, the racist skinheads - Kenneth Mieske, Steven Strasser, and Kyle Brewster - stood on a corner about 100 feet from Seraw and his friends. Brewster said, "Hey, I see a nigger. Let's go over there and mess with him. The skinheads immediately hopped in their car and drove down the block to the car of the three Ethiopeans. Mieske got out of the car first and exchanged angry words with Seraw and his companions. Strasser and Brewster joined in and there was a scuffle. Then Mieske went further. Moving up behind Seraw, he repeatedly struck him in the back of the head with a baseball bat, while Strasser and Brewster kicked all three black men. When it was over ... Seraw was pronounced dead on arrival. He had died as a result of a fractured skull." (Levin, 99-100) "It took only hours for Tom Metzger to publicize his defiant response to the verdict against him. In a recorded message on his hate-filled hotline, the head of WAR issued a warning to his 'new' targets everywhere. In an emotional statement of purpose, he proclaimed that 'we will put blood on the streets like you've never seen and advocate more violence than both World Wars put together...We have a new set of targets to play with. So if you're white and work for the system, watch your step. Whether you be a system cop, a controlled judge, or a crooked lawyer, your ass is grass.[5]" (Levin, 103) [5] Southern Poverty Law Center, "Metzger Warns of More Violence." Work Cited Levin, Jack & Jack McDevitt. Hate Crimes: The Rising Tide of Bigotry and Bloodshed. New York & London: Plenum Press, 1993
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