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January 7

On this date in 1999 in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lucas Brouillard, 18, Justin Santos, 18, Scott Oliveira, 19, Adam Dapic, 21, (all from Fall River), and three juveniles were indicted on charges of Assault & Battery with a Dangerous Weapon and civil rights violations. They are alleged to have thrown rocks, bricks, and pieces of furniture at a group of Cambodian-American children on May 4, 1998, while also hurling racial slurs at them as the children played in the yard of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Fall River. In August, 1999, Dapic, was found guilty of 16 counts of assault and battery, assault, and violating the civil rights of Cambodian victims, and he was sentenced to three years in state prison and ordered to take a diversity awareness course. Oliveira was found guilty of 15 counts of assault and battery, and he was sentenced to two years at the Bristol County House of Correction, and ordered to take a diversity awareness course. Santos was found guilty of two counts of assault and battery and he received a suspended sentence and ordered to take a diversity course as a condition of his probation.


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