Palestinian Students Beaten and Called 'Terrorists' by Football Players at N.C. College

January 23, 2007

Palestinian Students Beaten and Called 'Terrorists' by Football Players at N.C. College

Three football players at Guilford College were arrested on Monday and charged with assault and battery in connection with an attack late Friday night or early Saturday morning against three Palestinian students on the North Carolina campus, according to the News & Record, a newspaper in Greensboro, N.C.

The five-minute attack involved "at least 15 members of the football team," some of them drunk, the newspaper said, citing a police report and college statement, and the Palestinians were called "terrorists" and insulted with racial slurs. Two of the three victims are students at Guilford, a Quaker institution, while one was visiting from North Carolina State University; two were severely injured.

Two of the three alleged attackers are star members of the college's Division III football team. The college released a statement saying that it would refrain from taking action against the accused students until they had been prosecuted in the local courts.

 

http://chronicle.com/news/article/1561/palestinian-students-beaten-and-called-terrorists-by-football-players-at-nc-college

 

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