CEE DOG
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These red necks are horrible. 
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=135262&catid=40
Paul Crawley
MORROW, Ga. - "We are concerned; in fact, we're mad as hell about what happened here."
That was just some of the outrage expressed Wednesday by Former Atlanta City Councilman Derrick Boazman and some other civil rights activists who gathered outside a Cracker Barrel in Morrow.
They're upset at what happened between two customers at the entrance to the restaurant on September 9th.
Thirty-five-year-old U.S. Army reservist Tasha Hill and her 7-year-old daughter, Shiyenn, were leaving when she says a man coming in bumped a door into the child.
According to Hill and other witnesses quoted in the police report, she asked the man to please be careful about her child and he went into a rage.
The report says 47-year-old Troy Dale West, Jr. of Poulan, Georgia began beating and kicking Hill and screaming racial insults in front of Hill's young daughter, who became hysterical.
Morrow Police say West was still on the scene when they arrived and admitted striking Hill.
He claimed she spit at him before the attack, which Hill and other witnesses deny.
West was arrested and charged with two misdemeanors: battery and disorderly conduct, as well as one felony count of child cruelty.
He was set free on $12,000 bond.
Wednesday, Boazman and a handful of other civil rights activists met with the Clayton County District Attorney to ask for stiffer charges.
A short time later, D.A. Tracy Graham Lawson stood with the group to announce that she will personally ask a grand jury for more felony charges in the next month or so.
"I'm appalled," D.A. Lawson told reporters, "I don't normally get personally involved in cases, but I'm going to personally prosecute Mr. West on behalf of that victim and the citizens of this county."
Hill expressed her thanks to the District Attorney and others who have shown sympathy for the attack.
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=135262&catid=40
Paul Crawley
MORROW, Ga. - "We are concerned; in fact, we're mad as hell about what happened here."
That was just some of the outrage expressed Wednesday by Former Atlanta City Councilman Derrick Boazman and some other civil rights activists who gathered outside a Cracker Barrel in Morrow.
They're upset at what happened between two customers at the entrance to the restaurant on September 9th.
Thirty-five-year-old U.S. Army reservist Tasha Hill and her 7-year-old daughter, Shiyenn, were leaving when she says a man coming in bumped a door into the child.
According to Hill and other witnesses quoted in the police report, she asked the man to please be careful about her child and he went into a rage.
The report says 47-year-old Troy Dale West, Jr. of Poulan, Georgia began beating and kicking Hill and screaming racial insults in front of Hill's young daughter, who became hysterical.
Morrow Police say West was still on the scene when they arrived and admitted striking Hill.
He claimed she spit at him before the attack, which Hill and other witnesses deny.
West was arrested and charged with two misdemeanors: battery and disorderly conduct, as well as one felony count of child cruelty.
He was set free on $12,000 bond.
Wednesday, Boazman and a handful of other civil rights activists met with the Clayton County District Attorney to ask for stiffer charges.
A short time later, D.A. Tracy Graham Lawson stood with the group to announce that she will personally ask a grand jury for more felony charges in the next month or so.
"I'm appalled," D.A. Lawson told reporters, "I don't normally get personally involved in cases, but I'm going to personally prosecute Mr. West on behalf of that victim and the citizens of this county."
Hill expressed her thanks to the District Attorney and others who have shown sympathy for the attack.
