

SAN JOSE, CA — In 2013, a Melanoid college student by the name of Donald Williams Jr. was brutally beaten by his college roommates–three white men. The incident occurred during the fall semester of 2013 when Williams was forced down by Logan Beaschler, Joseph “Brett” Bomgardner, and Colin Warren, and fastening a u-shaped bicycle lock around his neck, as if to simulate them capturing Williams as a slave.
During the abusive confrontation, Williams’s abusers called him “******”, and also ridiculed him by nicknaming him “fraction”–in reference to the old three-fifths law which recognizes Black people in this country as partially human.
The representatives of the white men implied that their clients were engaged in an excessive “prank war”, because they were “immature, insensitive, and stupid.”
Although the defendants were found guilty for misdemeanor assault on Monday of this week, they were not found guilty on more severe charges of hate crimes. The 12-person jury on hand for the two-plus week trial were comprised of six men and six women–none of who were Black.
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