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Racial Beating Plea

NPR
Published October 19, 1998 at 12:00 AM EDT

Jackie Northam of member station WBEZ in Chicago reports that two white men charged with the brutal racially motivated beating of a Chicago teenager today pleaded guilty and avoided jail time.

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