SI Election Night Hate Crime Gang Sentenced For Up to 9 Years

The gang of young men who were so incensed by last year's victory for President Obama that they "decided to go after black people" were sentenced today for their two separate Election Night attacks. The four Staten Islanders, known as the Rosebank Krew will now spend the four years of Obama's term behind bars. Three of them received sentences hovering around five years and one got a stiffer nine years for beating up a 17-year-old Liberian immigrant and putting a white man they believed to be black in a coma for weeks after running over him with a car. 19-year-old Ralph Nicoletti (pictured) received the 9-year sentence; he has had a rap sheet since he was 14 and at one point point attacked Michael Contreras because he thought Contreras was the snitch. (Nicoletti said he had become "upset" because Contreras repeatedly tried to sell him drugs.) Nicoletti believed he deserved a lighter sentence for cooperating, but a judge disagreed, saying his crimes were "perpetrated by pure hate that was born out of ignorance."

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By Billy Parker in News on September 10, 2009 5:40 PM

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yytttt

What's the difference between yogurt and staten island?

Espiazul

Fuck stupid racist white kids. Their enrollment has been down in prison for too long. Both they and their white collar counterparts are finally going home to prison where they have always belonged. Who are the criminals now? Looks like rich white men in suits and the priviliged spawn of white Union rackateers. Hoooray!

Radtard

The sad/scary part is he will prob come out a more hardened determined misanthropic fucktard. Prison culture consist of tribes. The white power group will welcome him with open arms and a custom shank with his name inscribed.

NannyState

Or he'll jump the gun, get tats he didn't earn and get rich off the tooth fairy after tossing some light colored salad...

resa

They will sure have fun in prison.

Bort

You know you're fucked when you accidentally beat up a white dude during a racist rampage. COME. ON. DUDES.

pointsguy

Running over someone with a car?

Ummm, hello? How about 20 years, if not life? They tried to kill someone. They got lucky because the victim was strong enough to survive. So you reward their luck with a shorter sentence?