From students. Kate . Reporter michelle, this rally was organized by the universitys black student union. Take a closer look right here. They are gathering on behalf of the victim who according to the san jose mercury, from santa cruz. You see officers staged out here, a handful of students in the middle of the quad. The merc also reported the students in this case downplayed these incidents as pranks and jokes, but the students we spoke to say they went too far. The suspects were roommates in one of these Campus Village buildings where they lived in an eightperson suite throughout the fall term. The list of allegations against the freshmen are agregious. The District Attorney says the suspects reportedly put a u shaped bike lock around their black roommates neck. The victim was injured when he refused to be locked up a second time. The da also said the three suspects allegedly subjected the victim to racial taunts, making an 18th century reference to how slaves were counted in the u.
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