Three Chicago teens are being charged with a hate crime after it was revealed they tried to hang a black student who attended their high school.
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The three students from Chicago’s Brother Rice High School are alleged to have used a noose, called the boy the N-word, while threatening him with a knife.
According to Chicago police, the incident happened December 23rd, but the victim and his parents did not report it until Christmas Eve.
Matthew Herrmann, an 18-year-old graduate of Brother Rice High School, is now facing felony charges for an alleged hate crime.
Herrmann, and two other boys, 16 and 17 years old, lured the victim to one of their homes in the Beverly neighborhood and tried to put a noose around his neck while calling him the N-word – all because one of the suspects, according to police, wanted the victim to stop talking to his female cousin, who is white.
Jim Antos, Principal of Brother Rice High School told ABC News:
“The alleged victim, I have him in class, he’s a wonderful person. How this stuff happens, given 2012, and given what you do as teachers and parents, I just don’t know,”
Kevin Burns, Brother Rice President added:
“It’s disturbing just by the very nature of the alleged crime. It’s not what Brother Rice is about, it’s not what we stand for, it’s not what we represent.
We teach our young men to be respectful of all people, and respect all life, and certainly this goes contrary to all of that.”
The victim’s father told ABC 7:
“It is disappointing that in 2012 kids still have feelings like this in their heart…the parents (of the suspects) are not teaching children certain thing they shouldn’t do.”
Police say the victim was not physically injured in the incident. Either way, it is sad that this sort of behavior is going in America.
Above: Matthew Herrmann, 18, was one of three teens suspected in the racial attack on a black teen involving a noose. He is being charged as an adult.
