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Firestorm Over Attack on Yale Singers

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Posted on Jan 14, 2007
The Baker's Dozen
From ABC7News

A recent picture of The Baker’s Dozen, the Yale singing group that was attacked on New Year’s Eve by a large group of San Francisco youths—several of whom attend a prominent local Catholic school.

Nearly two weeks after a group of San Francisco high school students assaulted the members of a Yale all-male a capella singing group—leaving two hospitalized—charges of homophobia, a police cover-up and local political indifference are making headway in the national news media.

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    By DeanOR, January 15, 2007 at 3:14 am Link to this comment
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    My comment was regarding the story linked by “Comprehensive Coverage” above, not the story linked to by “Cops finish questioning…

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    By DeanOR, January 15, 2007 at 3:05 am Link to this comment
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    I e-mailed the reporters a complaint about the tone of their story, which seems to make light of the violence and the importance of possible police and city hall corruption or bias. I encourage others to do the same; we have to keep the press on their toes.

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    By RAE, January 14, 2007 at 10:16 pm Link to this comment
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    With this much “PR & spin” (code words for lies, cover up and deception) the “truth” will NEVER see the light of day.

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    By John Hanks, January 14, 2007 at 8:10 pm Link to this comment
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    Jesus didn’t like phoneys and blockheads.  No religious practice leads to the rapture.  The human race consists of crooks, suckers and a whole lot of lazy cowards.

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