Kansan sentenced for drunken racial incident

[proud2BlibKansan]

TOPEKA | A northeast Kansas man has been sentenced to six months in federal custody for charges related to a drunken, racial attack at a 2007 graduation party.

Prosecutors say David B. Endsley's attack on a black teenager was an attempt to drive the student out of the area.

Endsley, 20, of Waterville was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Court Sam Crow, who recommended Endsley serve the time in a halfway house. Endsley pleaded guilty last year to interfering with the right to fair housing, a misdemeanor, and lying to an FBI agent during the investigation of the attack, a felony.

Crow also ordered Endsley to serve community service at a racially diverse nonprofit and receive cultural diversity training.

The 14-year-old victim, identified only as "J.L.," was tied to a chair, prosecutors said, and Endsley spray painted his arms and legs white while he and the co-defendants made racial slurs.

The incident occurred at a drunken gathering of 100 to 300 young people on May 19, 2007, at the Endsley home in Waterville.

Prosecutors sought a sentence of more than two years for Endsley. His defense attorney, Tom Haney, asked the judge for probation, who said the incident wouldn't have happened if alcohol weren't involved and if the victim had not made sexual overtures to women at the party.

Haney denied the incident was a "hate crime" because nobody was hurt.

Endsley read a statement apologizing and told Crow that he no longer drank alcohol, worked 50 to 60 hours a week to pay college debt and legal bills, and volunteered as a youth football coach.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1134479.html

[Auggie]

1. Six months isn't long enough

The victim will live with this forever.

[luvspeas]

2. But that poor 20 year old child was drunk!...

and the little darling would have never done that to that beastly 14 year old if he wasn't protecting all the white women there! and and and afterall, no body lost limbs or was dragged from the back of a truck. Gosh darn it all, this is Kansas not Texas!

Fucking assholes.

[ecstatic]

3. Excuse me? He gets to be a football coach now?

Is someone like him, who acts irresponsibly and racist but then blames it all on alcohol, fit to coach impressionable kids? :wtf:

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. MTE

That was my wtf moment when I read this.

[Blue_Tires]

5. oh yeah...he can't be socializing with "our" women....

:sarcasm:

[msongs]

6. everyone knows football builds character nt