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February 27 - March 17, 2020
After the police arrived, the man with the mustache walked home, tears streaming down his face. He was in shorts and a button-up shirt, his jacket charred from smothering the flames. “Why?” he kept asking himself. “Oh my God, why?”
Karl was running, still on
One of them, a teenage girl, had called her mother, who had called 911. The
“Don’t you have anything to keep him warm?” Debbie
forty-five minutes, the ambulance arrived.
emergency room.
Bothin Burn Center, a specialized unit that treats burn victims from around the Bay Area.
third-degree burns, in
reported that a man had been set on fire
he wanted to talk in private, but
She found him outside, being led away in handcuffs by two uniformed police officers. She never learned what he’d wanted to tell her.
Nemo was concerned.
Sasha
would be okay,
at least a couple ...
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“Hate him,” Healy says. “Hate his guts.”
got the news in the middle of a lecture and kept right on teaching.
But after Sasha was burned, he couldn’t teach.
Richard never called.
six days later,
charge Richard as an adult and his name was all over the news.
police station on
candid,
homophobic.”
somber
mayhem”
vagrancy
violent-crime
A 2012 analysis by California’s Department of Justice found that cases against black youths were more than twice as likely to be directly filed in adult court than cases against white youths, and cases against Latino youths were more than six times as likely. And the disparity didn’t end there. Once they landed in adult court, young black and brown
awry,”
Weil
axis.
US Supreme Court justice
crusader
qualms
segregation
occupant
discrimi...
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bigotry
vandalism.
“epidemic”
bias-motivated
high-profile
prejudice.
transgender
gay,
empathy
Justice for Victims Act, which allows juries to be instructed before they begin deliberations that they should not allow themselves to be influenced by bias against the gender identity of the victim, defendant, or witnesses.
Researchers estimate that fewer than 5 percent are members of an organized hate group. Most are young males, either in their teens or early twenties, acting in a group, often immediately after school. In
“thrill-seeking”—
