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Chicago teen charged with hate crime in attack on Sikh
WHEATON, Illinois (AP) — A vealed that the teen yelled tors say. gion, disability, ethnic origin spokesman Paul Darrah
suburban Chicago teen- racial slurs from his vehicle “Crimes based on hatred or or sexual orientation is a said.
ager already charged with at 53-year-old Inderjit Muk- prejudices have no place crime not only against the The additional charge fol-
punching a Sikh man dur- ker, the State’s Attorney’s in our society,” State’s At- victim but against society lows calls from a faith group
ing what authorities de- Office said in a news re- torney Robert B. Berlin said as a whole.” called the Sikh Coalition for
scribe as a road rage in- lease. in a statement. “Any physi- It is unusual for minors to be prosecutors to charge the
cident has been charged After the two pulled over, cal attack motivated in charged with hate crimes teen with a hate crime af-
with a hate crime, prosecu- Mukker stayed sitting in his whole or in part by an of- and this might be only the ter Mukker, a resident of
tors said Tuesday. vehicle but the 17-year-old fender’s pre-conceived second such case in nine Darien, told the group that
Further investigation into approached and punched bias against another indi- years in DuPage County, his attacker yelled at him,
the incident on Sept. 8 re- him in the face, prosecu- vidual based on race, reli- State’s Attorney’s Office calling him a terrorist.q
Cops: 5 charged so far in fraternity pledge hazing death
MICHAEL RUBINKAM were charged with hazing, hospital after he was blind-
Associated Press folded, forced to wear a
POCONO SUMMIT, Pennsyl- conspiracy and hindering heavy backpack and then
vania (AP) — Five people, repeatedly tackled during
including the former na- apprehension and were a hazing ritual known as
tional president of a frater- glass ceiling, Police Chief
nity, have been charged making arrangements Chris Wagner said at a
in the 2013 death of a New news conference.
York City college freshman Tuesday to turn themselves Deng fell unconscious
during a brutal hazing ritu- and was carried inside
al in Pennsylvania, police in. Fraternity officials did not the house while fraternity
said Tuesday. members called Meng,
Fraternity members at Ba- immediately return emails changed Deng’s clothes
ruch College physically and did a Google search
abused Chun “Michael” seeking comment on the of his symptoms.
Deng, then tried to cover “At this point, members
it up as the 19-year-old lay charges. began to hide parapher-
dying in their rented house nalia and basically put the
in the Pocono Mountains, “There is some measure of fraternity’s well-being over
police said. that of Michael Deng’s,”
A grand jury recommend- relief,” said the Deng fam- Wagner said.
ed charges for 37 people Three fraternity members
in Deng’s December 2013 ily’s attorney, eventually took him to the
death. Pocono Mountain hospital, where he died a
Regional police intend to Douglas Fierberg, who is day later.q
representing them in a law-
Pocono Regional Police Chief Chris Wagner, right, and Monroe suit against the fraternity
County Assistant District Attorney Michael Rakaczewski hold a
news conference at the police station in Pocono Summit, Pa., on and some of its members.
Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015, to discuss charges in the hazing death
of New York City college student Chun “Michael” Deng. “It gives them a better in-
(AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam) dication of who was in-
volved,
what happened and who
arrest suspects in waves, whelmed. tried to cover up this death,
moving from least to most The first five suspects, in-
culpable, to keep the cluding former Pi Delta and that’s information they
courts from being over- Psi President Andy Meng,
never had.”
Fraternity members waited
an hour to take Deng to the
Bergdahl lawyer wants interrogation to be made public
JUAN A. LOZANO charges, including deser- fore or during the Article day. “It is as if he had a tar- The 29-year-old was
Associated Press tion, for leaving his post in 32 hearing, saying it could get painted on him. charged in March with de-
HOUSTON (AP) — The law- Afghanistan in June 2009. help counteract negative It is preposterous for him not sertion and misbehavior
yer for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, He is facing his initial court publicity. to be able to defend him- before the enemy.
who was held prisoner for appearance in the case self in the court of public If convicted, he could face
five years by the Taliban, is starting Thursday at Fort Fidell said Bergdahl may opinion.” up to life in a military prison.
asking the Army to publicly Sam Houston in San An- not receive a fair trial “giv- Military officials say the He could also be dishonor-
release a transcript of Berg- tonio, where he has been en the prolonged barrage Idaho native was captured ably discharged, reduced
dahl’s interview with mili- stationed since returning to of opprobrium that has by the Taliban after leaving in rank and have to forfeit
tary officials following his re- the U.S. last year. been heaped upon him his post in southeastern Af- all pay.
lease in a controversial pris- His attorney, Eugene Fidell, over the last year.” ghanistan. Fidell, a military justice ex-
oner swap, saying it could has asked the military to “Sgt. Bergdahl has been He was released by the pert who is also a visiting
help counteract negative publicly release the tran- called every name in the Taliban in a prisoner ex- lecturer at Yale Law School,
publicity in the case. script and a summary of book,” Fidell wrote in the change for five Taliban declined to comment on
Bergdahl is facing military an investigative report be- request, which he released commanders. the case. q
to media outlets on Tues-
