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Charge Trace O’Connell with federal hate crimes for assaulting Native Children at a Rapid City Rush hockey game

Created by B.M. on September 01, 2015

Trace O’Connell was just one in a group who hurled beer and shouted racial slurs towards Native American Children at a Rapid City Rush hockey game but the only one charged with any crime, a misdemeanor disorderly conduct. The Children from the American Horse School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, who had been rewarded with a school trip for achieving good grades, seem likely to learn a lesson that not every type of person in America receives justice, a terrible lesson, but one it seems the South Dakota Court has decided to teach.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/02/18/us/ap-us-fans-harassed.html

http://thepoliticus.com/content/minor-penalty-major-infraction-ignoring-...

http://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/justice-not-rapid-city/

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