Racial Violence, In America????

Four New York men have pleaded guilty to a string of racially motivated assaults on the night Barack Obama was elected as the first black U.S. president, a court spokesman said on Monday.

The three assaults in the New York City borough of Staten Island on Nov. 4 targeted black men, court documents said.
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"The conduct of the defendants is shocking and deplorable," said U.S. Attorney Benton Campbell. "On a night of historic significance, these four angry men assaulted their victims in an attempt to punish them for exercising a fundamental right of all Americans -- the right to vote."
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