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January 28, 2009

Man Pleads Guilty in Election Night Attacks
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Meanwhile, one of three suspects charged for a string of election night
hate crimes in New York has pleaded guilty. Brian Carranza faces up to
ten years in prison. Two other suspects have pleaded not guilty and are
free on bail. According to police, the three drove around Staten Island
black neighborhoods on election night looking for victims to attack. A
black Muslim teenager was beaten with a baseball bat, sending him to the
hospital. They also attacked another black man, a Hispanic man, and
drove down a white man they thought was an African American. The man
spent more than a month in a coma.



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