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RALEIGH, N.C. — Three football players at Guilford College, a school with a Quaker background, face assault and ethnic intimidation charges after an attack on three Palestinian students, authorities said.
The victims were beaten with fists, feet and brass knuckles early Saturday by attackers who called them "terrorists" and used racial slurs, according to court documents.
School officials believe about 12 people were involved in the altercation, said Guilford spokesman Nic Brown. Administrators were still trying to determine whether some were fighting or trying to break it up, Brown said.
"We've had a very, very unfortunate event, unfortunate conflict among students who actually knew each other, and who had lived and interacted in the same residence hall with no conflict among themselves," Brown said.
Authorities charged Michael Bates, 19, of Reidsville; Michael Robert Six, 20, of Greensboro; and Christopher Barnette, 21, of Semora, with ethnic intimidation and assault and battery, the News & Record of Greensboro reported Tuesday. They were released Monday on $2,000 bail.
Barnette and Bates could not be reached Tuesday at phone listings for them. Six does not have a listed number. None of the players responded to e-mails sent to their campus accounts.
A school statement said the altercation, in a campus courtyard, lasted less than five minutes. The students involved were acquaintances without a history of conflict, and at least some of them were under the influence of alcohol, the school said.
Two of the students who were attacked, Faris Khader and Osama Sabbah, are students at Guilford. The third, Omar Awartani, is a student at North Carolina State University in Raleigh who was visiting.
"It was the most horrific experience of my life," Awartani told the News & Record. "This was a horrible, unprovoked hate crime."
Awartani said he was found to have a concussion and had trouble walking on his own for several days after the attack.
Barnette, a wide receiver, was named one of the top 20 Division III players in the nation by the American Football Coaches Association last month.
Dear God. I think I know one of the victims... I'll have to try and get a hold of him.
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Just a bunch of footballing douchefuck wannabe's. Either that or they saw the NC State kid and took out their anger on him because he didn't get into ye old Blue and White.
Or is it Red? I can't... seem... to... Care...
I mean if they really want to beat on terrorists, join the armed forces and take it out on the real ones that make the rest of us look bad.
I know in Durham, the police doesn't post police activity to newspapers unless someone got shot or died just because of so much shit that happens there.
^because it wasn't reported wide spread over the local news... at least not yet. Police stations don't inform the media of incidents unless its high profile. It would seem to be a high profile case... But then again, it was just reported tuesday...
You'd think since it made national news, this topic of debate would be all over cnn, fox, msnbc, and their discussions trickle down to wral/cbs and other news organization for at least a week.
"His name is Osama! Get 'em!"
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