Mulugeta Seraw

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Mulugeta Seraw was an Ethiopian student who went to the United States to attend college and was killed in 1988 in Portland, Oregon by a racist skinhead gang, which consisted of Ken "Death" Mieske, Kyle Brewster, and Steve Strasser, who were linked to White Aryan Resistance. Seraw was killed on Southeast 31st Avenue, near his apartment. ^[1]

On November 12, 1988, a group of racists known as East Side White Pride brutally beat Seraw with a bat and left him in a puddle of his own blood. Seraw died in the early-morning hours of the following day. The murder was one of the most shocking crimes in Portland history. In response, hundreds of people turned out for rallies against racism. The three men who beat Seraw to death were arrested and, in 1990, Mieske was convicted of first-degree murder and Brewster and Strasser of manslaughter and assault. ^[2]

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Baker, Jeff, "Our Home-Grown Hitlers", The Oregonian, August 31, 2003.
2. ^ Herzog, Boaz, "Man in Infamous Hate-Crime Killing Arrested on Violation of Parole Terms", The Oregonian, May 20, 2006.

[edit] References

• Berhanu v. Metzger case document of The Southern Poverty Law Center
• Langer, Elinor. A Hundred Little Hitlers. New York: Henry Holt, 2003.

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