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Teen Wins Lawsuit Against KKK Members

By Ann O'Neill
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(Nov. 15) -- A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because they mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant, the Southern Poverty Law Center said.
The jury found that the Imperial Klans of America and its founder wrongfully targeted 16-year-old Jordan Gruver, an American citizen of Panamanian and Native-American descent.
Brian Bohannon, AP
Jordan Gruver gets a hug from his mother, Cindy, after the verdict is read.



The verdict included $1.5 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages against "Imperial Wizard" Ron Edwards.
The law center said before the verdict that a large damage award could break the Klan group, allowing the teen and the law center to seize the group's assets, including its headquarters, a 15-acre compound in Dawson Springs, Kentucky.
"We look forward to collecting every dime that we can for our client and to putting the Imperial Klans of America out of business," said SPLC founder and chief trial attorney Morris Dees, who tried the case.

Teen Wins Lawsuit Against KKK Members

Good for him, I hope they keep hitting the Klan harder and harder.

Originally Posted by Zarathustra

Good for him, I hope they keep hitting the Klan harder and harder.

Damned straight. That's they way to deal with these bigoted, racist cowards. Jail them and sue them out of existence.

I bet Defensor and Tick are going nuts over this.

Originally Posted by Bourne

Damned straight. That's they way to deal with these bigoted, racist cowards. Jail them and sue them out of existence.

Exactly right!

And that is the SAME way we deal with the Neo-Cons.

JAIL, and seizure of assets.

That sounds PERFECT to me! :laughing:

Originally Posted by Zarathustra

I bet Defensor and Tick are going nuts over this.

Defensor definitely. He's probably cutting a check for their appeal fund as we speak, drawn on the Heinrich Himmler National Bank. Tick saves his hatred pretty much for Islamists and those who sympathize with them. FFA might qualify after his comment about "all the darkies want to do is riot."

How much of that is Robert Byrd going to have to pay?

And another question: If the Klan hadn't been mistaken, and the victim had been a real illegal alien, would the case have been dismissed?

Originally Posted by Zarathustra

The jury found that the Imperial Klans of America and its founder wrongfully targeted 16-year-old Jordan Gruver, an American citizen of Panamanian and Native-American descent.

Is that implying that there is a way to target violence upon a person that is not wrong?

Originally Posted by Freedom for All

How much of that is Robert Byrd going to have to pay?

And another question: If the Klan hadn't been mistaken, and the victim had been a real illegal alien, would the case have been dismissed?

It would still have been uncalled for.

Originally Posted by Bourne

Damned straight. That's they way to deal with these bigoted, racist cowards. Jail them and sue them out of existence.

That's right. Who the fuck are they ? Take away every constitutional right they have because you disagree with them !

Granted their orginization is scum but any real liberal would fight to insure they maintaned their first amendment rights.

You were a pathetic excuse for a Conservative Bourne but your even a more useless as a Liberal. What's your next political idealology ? Let me guess ? What political idealogy has no tolerance for other peoples ideas ? And no it's not Conservtive.