White Man pleads guilty to battery in 'hate crime' attack on Black Teenagers
/Mario McGrew said he is satisfied with Jeromy C. Kendall's guilty plea
to two counts of battery. The plea helps to bring closure to an
incident two years ago that police had described as a hate crime. On
Aug. 10, 2002, McGrew and a friend, Sidney Hockaday, who are black,
said they were riding their bikes through the parking lot of the Campus
Square shopping center when three white men hollered racist comments at
them. McGrew and Hockaday, who were about to start their senior year at
Adams High School at the time, stopped to ask the men what their
problem was. The men then reportedly attacked the teens. The teens said
they took off their belts and used them to defend themselves. One of
their assailants took McGrew's belt, put it around his neck, "and I was
told I could be hung,'' McGrew said after the incident. [more 
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