Baton Rouge DA Decides Against Hate Crime in Beating

WWLTV
July 13, 2013

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A Louisiana prosecutor says he won’t pursue hate crime charges against a black man accused of beating a white man and telling the victim he was in “the wrong neighborhood.”

The Advocate reports that Donald Ray Dickerson, 41, is charged with assaulting the man at a Baton Rouge gas station in May.

East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III said Friday that he’ll prosecute Dickerson as a habitual offender, instead of hate crime charges.

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