AT LEAST HE HAD THE DECENCY TO DENY EVER BEING A SKINHEAD!
Seriously, one look at this clown and you wonder how he even made it into a courtroom. This is the kind of guy most people we know get on their knees and pray would come at them for wearing an anti-Nazi T-Shirt! Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that Chad Kerns is in Maricopa County, AZ, where the Nazi-lovin’, racial profiling Joe Arpiao is Sheriff, but in most other parts in the country, people would kick his ass on general principle alone. Instead, Chad is going to jail after pleading guilty to not only beating up along with friends an Hispanic man wearing an anti-Nazi T-Shirt, bu also for stabbing a black man outside a drug store. We don’t know how long he will spend in prison, but even with Joe Arpaio, his time promises to be fun. At least he cleared one thing up though. He says in a jailhouse interview that despite having “skinhead” tattooed on his head. He was never a skinhead. You’re damn right about that, Chad!
myFOXpheonix.com
PHOENIX – Chad Kerns, 31, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of aggravated assault in a pair of racially-motivated attacks that happened in March and June of 2007.
In March of 2007, Kerns and several others beat up a Hispanic man wearing an anti-Nazi shirt outside a bar.
In June of 2007, Kerns stabbed a black man outside of a Phoenix drug store.
Kerns will be sentenced on August 14.
Kerns earlier told FOX 10 that he has never been a skinhead, despite the fact that “skinhead” is tattooed on his forehead.
Co-defendant Aaron Smith, 31, was sentenced to five years after pleading guilty to aggravated assault and assisting a criminal street gang.
“Our community must send a clear message: We will never tolerate violent crimes motivated by racism or prejudice. These offenses are nothing less than an attack on the American dream,” said County Attorney Andrew Thomas in a statement Wednesday.
I am posting this story because I live here in maricopa county. I wish I could say this is the first time we have had White Nationalists commit racial crimes here, but it isn’t. Over the years we have seen people beaten or murdered by these guys just because they weren’t white or they were gay.
They are even violent within their own Cause. They have murdered one another.
I don’t know maybe we still have the mindset of the old west here in AZ. You know the gunfight at the ok corral.
I hope they throw the book at these guys. As Andrew Thomas says we need to send a strong message that we will not tolerate this behavior. I know people like to make jokes about our sherif Joe. He is my sherif in Sun Lakes. We don’t have a police department but depend on the sherif. When I worked security at night here sometimes I would chat with the sherifs who were also working graveyard about things that were happening here that needed to be dealt with. I found them all to be very professional. We must not judge the whole sherif’s department by Sherif Joe, who has become a joke.
The thing is that the people in this county continue to elect him sherif. We are not all racist here. Part of the problem is that we Liberals have not done a good job in finding the right candidate who can beat him. One must never give up hope so maybe we will have better luck in the next election in defeating him, so that Maricopa County AZ can stop having a sherif that everyone else in the country either loves or hates.
Sherif Joe is tough and I am sure he will do his job and not allow these criminals to escape justice. He is a lawman first and foremost. I hate being in this position of feeling I have to defend Sherif Joe and the Sherif Dept. in my area, but the brave men and woman put their lives on the line to protect and serve Maricopa county. When they are needed they answer the call.