Cincinnati Man Charged in Riots
.c The Associated Press
CINCINNATI (AP) - In the first indictment for a hate crime during three days
of riots in Cincinnati, a white man has been charged with throwing a brick
through a black man's car window and shouting racial slurs.
A grand jury on Monday indicted Craig Carr, 20, on a charge of ethnic
intimidation for throwing the brick on April 12 during riots in black
neighborhoods elsewhere in Cincinnati, prosecutors said. The rioting followed
the fatal shooting by police of an unarmed black man.
Carr, of Cincinnati, also was indicted on charges of criminal damaging and
aggravated menacing. If convicted, he could face up to two years in prison.
Carr has no listed telephone number in the city or suburbs and could not be
reached for comment Tuesday.
In Ohio, ethnic intimidation - the state's ``hate crime'' - cannot be charged
as a sole offense, but can be attached to other criminal charges to bring a
stiffer punishment, Hamilton County Prosecutor Michael Allen said.
Allen said last week similar ``hate crime'' charges could be brought against
black youths already charged with rioting, looting and assault if he obtains
evidence that those offenses were done to intimidate white people.
Prosecutors are examining subpoenaed television news tapes to try to identify
black youths who pulled a white trucker from his cab and beat him, Allen
said.
On Friday, Allen announced 63 indictments on charges committed during the
riots. All but one of those defendants are black.
The rioting stopped when Mayor Charles Luken imposed Cincinnati's first
citywide curfew since race riots in 1968. Allen said a grand jury will soon
investigate the April 7 shooting of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas, which
prompted the rioting.
AP-NY-04-24-01 2005EDT
Copyright 2001 The Associated Press.
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