Word: metzger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terrifying," said David Metzger, a tourist from New York who was praying at the Wall. "Stones were coming out of the sky and everybody panicked. I could have easily been killed...
...unusual amalgam of crimes and punishments: charges of murder and racism, to be measured by the strictures of tort liability. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury," intoned civil rights crusader Morris Dees, "we're going to ask you to return a verdict so big that it will put Tom Metzger out of business...
...taking aim at Metzger, 52, and his son John, 22, Dees is trying to cripple an admitted "racial separatist" and leader of a neo-Nazi movement known as the White Aryan Resistance (WAR). Dees, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, was using an unusual weapon: the common-law principle of "vicarious liability," most frequently invoked against employers for their workers' negligence. Simply put, Dees and his fellow lawyers sue national racist organizations on behalf of the families of victims of violent acts, charging that the organizations should incur heavy civil penalties for their indirect role...
...Portland, Dees and colleague Elden Rosenthal are asking a $10 million punitive judgment against WAR and the Metzgers. A member of WAR's Portland affiliate, East Side White Pride, was convicted last year of murder in the 1988 beating death of Mulugeta Seraw, a 27-year-old Ethiopian man; two other members were convicted of first-degree manslaughter in the case. Metzger, a television repairman, and his son run WAR from their family's home in Fallbrook, Calif., north of San Diego. The organization's cable-television show, Race and Reason, is carried on 50 cable-access channels...
...link between the Metzgers and the Portland murder, Dees alleges, was WAR national vice president David Mazzella, 20. The senior Metzger sent Mazzella to Portland in September 1988, the civil rights advocate charges, to organize East Side White Pride into a more militant street-fighting group. Dees' evidence includes a letter from John Metzger to Portland members that says Mazzella is coming "to show you how we operate." Dees charges that Mazzella promptly led the local racists out to beat up black and Hispanic victims...