- 14 Sep 2006 20:32
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Hate crime laws should not exist.
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Petaluma police report that a 19-year-old black man who claimed he was attacked on an early Sept. 4 morning in a racially motivated assault was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy and falsely reporting a crime.
According to police, Eric Young said he was walking in the area of Howard and Prospect streets on a Monday at 12:04 a.m. when a young told him he did not belong in the neighborhood, made racial slurs and attacked him. Police report that the 19-year-old claimed several more people joined in the assault before they all fled. He said he called a friend who took him to Petaluma Valley Hospital, where he was treated for a shoulder injury, according to police.
After an "intense'' investigation launched because of the seriousness of the alleged crime, Petaluma investigators re-interviewed Young and say they began to notice inconsistencies in his story, ranging from the extent of his injuries to descriptions of his alleged assailants.
Petaluma police report that investigators spoke with some friends of Young who were with him prior to his alleged assault, who told a very different story than Young's. His friends told investigators that he was extremely drunk that night and had injured his shoulder while wrestling with a friend, according to police.
Investigators determined that Young was not the victim of any crime, according to police, and that he had allegedly conspired with his friends to falsely report his attack.
Police report that investigators re-interviewed Young again on Wednesday and say that he admitted to making up the story about his attack.
He was arrested and is facing charges of felony conspiracy and falsely reporting a crime, a misdemeanor, according to police.
He will be scheduled in court to face his charges, but because of his medical condition, he was not put in jail, according to police.
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