{news} RE: Racism goes on trial again in America's Deep South

[David Bedell]

Of course, we don't have to go to Louisiana to find racism.  The latest 
scandal in Stamford involves death threats and racial epithets directed at a 
high school girl.  The mayor's son was apparently a witness to the acts, if 
not a participant.

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-lawsuit2may25,0,5566130.story

Alleged hate crime victim's family sues city
By Zach Lowe
Staff Writer

May 25, 2007

STAMFORD - The family of an alleged hate crime victim filed a federal 
lawsuit yesterday accusing the city of failing to protect the girl's rights 
by allowing students who left her racist phone messages to attend school 
with her, court records show.

The suit accuses the city of "failing to act in part because one of the 
callers is the son of Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy."

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