Nevada Native American Man Beaten and Stabbed By Neo-Nazis

[Proukunin]

"Johnny Bonta was pumping gas at a Quick Stop in Fernley, Nevada when he says a group of skinheads pulled alongside him, waved a baseball bat and tried to pick a fight. “Let’s do this,” Bonta says one of them yelled.
Bonta, a Native American of the Reno Sparks Indian Colony, got back in his car with his family and took off.
Up the road, he says, the blue car swerved in front of him, slammed on the breaks and deliberately caused a crash.
“They all jumped out of the car with baseball bats, knives and a crowbar, and we knew they were going to hurt us,” his wife Lisa tells the Indian Country Today Media Network.
Lisa Bonta had to give that statement from the Washoe Medical Center, where she was laid up after suffering seizures during what ensued after the accident.
While cars passed by on the I-80 in Nevada, a brawl erupted between Bonta and members of the Cassell family. Johnny’s son-in-law, Murray, recognized one of the assailants, Jacob Cassell, as a former classmate and the son of a Lyon County Sherriff officer.
“You hear those cops coming? They’re not going to help you. My daddy is a cop in this town, and nothing is going to happen to me. You fucking niggers are going to jail,” barked one of the Cassells.
Nothing did happen to Cassell, and hours later he was bragging about it on Facebook.
Jacob’s friend, Josh Janiszewski, posted two hours after the attack that he “Just laid the fists and boots to some 6′ 5” tongan dude. what you got on little guys?” When someone asked if they gave them hell, Josh responded with “Oh we did. That’s for sure!”
“Sent em to the hospital, they got fucked up man, thats for sure.”
Johnny didn’t get sent to the hospital, however. Not right away at least. He remained locked up in a Nevada jail cell for six days while his family was undergoing medical treatment and unaware of his condition.
“I asked them to tell me what charges he was being held on and no one would say,” Lisa tells Indian Country Today. “They said they gave him the information, but he can’t read or write, so I needed to find out. At first they said there was a bench warrant for an unpaid $367 fine, and when we made arrangements to pay that, they charged him with battery with a deadly weapon, even though it was those boys who had the weapons. The booking papers say we owe $30,367.00. ”
Charges from the May 24 incident against any parties are now off the books at the Lyon County District Attorney’s Office, however.
Lisa says she called the jail each day asking if her husband received treatment yet. The last she saw him was on the road of the I-80 as he was knocked unconscious with a bat, stabbed in the neck and had his sinus cavities shattered. One morning, a prison official told her “he’ll have to get his Indian doctor if he wants treatment.”
Former US Civil Rights Commission Chairman Arlan Melendez tells Racism Daily that “Nevada was always known as the ‘Mississippi of the West’ for its rampant racism. Up until the late 1950s, Indians had to be off the streets by sundown or face arrest.”
Over half a century later, it looks as if that hasn’t changed that much. Hate crimes are still rampant and injustice exists as the skinheads involved remain free and the Bontas are left crippled, financially, physically and emotionally.
They aren’t the only ones, either. A Department of Justice report from 2005 shows that the overall violent crime rate among American Indians and Alaska Natives was 100 per 1,000 persons — or that one out of 10 American Indians has been a victim of violence. The study also notes that “American Indians are more likely than people of other races to experience violence at the hands of someone of a different race,” with 70 percent of reported violent attacks committed by non-Indians.
“We need to put pressure on law enforcement and the judicial system to ensure the Bontas are treated fairly,” adds Melendez. “Our main concern is that these attacks need to be taken very seriously and fully investigated as hate crimes.”
In the meantime, law enforcement seems unconvinced that the crime was an act of hate. In fact, to them the altercation was “mutual.”
Lisa Bonta think that is it clearly the case, however. The 46 year old says one of the Cassellas hit her across the back with a bat before she succumbed to a seizure. He also called them “niggers” and “river monsters,” and said that he would rape their daughter Alyssa “the next time he saw her.”
She also adds that the police refused to take statements from her family.
Authorities towed the Bontas’ vehicle after the incident but refused to reveal where it was located. When Lisa found it two weeks later, it was in badly need of repair — which the family couldn’t afford since Johnny’s injuries and a week in jail have kept him from clocking in at work.
Dee Cassell, Jacob’s mother, has issued statements that the Bontas started the fight. A surveillance camera film from the Quick Stop allegedly shows the attackers launching out of their vehicles with bats, but police have yet to ask for the video as evidence.
"We are not racist. We're a big family and this is who we are," says Dee Cassell.
The Bontas are now seeking representation from an attorney through the American Civil Liberties Union and the FBI is beginning an investigation of the incident.
“I want the police to know they can’t deny people medical treatment just because they feel like it. Johnny could have died from a head injury, and they violated his civil rights. They should be held accountable,” says Lisa Bonta." -

From the news source RT

[Rafiq]

So let me get this straight: A Native American man was attacked by skinheads for no reason, and afterwords he was put in jail?

[Pretty Flaco]

Oh what a bunch of fucking bullshit. Those cops are despicable.

[Weezer]

The more stories I read like this strengthen my belief in capital punishment. These skinheads should be strung up by their testicles.

[Proukunin]

supposedly one of the cops was the father of one of the skinheads and they the man in jail for a frickin 300 dollar fine without any medical treatment.

[Johnny Kerosene]

I can not form a sentence that accurately describes the combination of disgust, sadness, anger, and lack of surprise (which makes the the other three stronger) I feel having only read the first half of this article.

[Tenka]

Dee Cassell, Jacob’s mother, has issued statements that the Bontas started the fight. A surveillance camera film from the Quick Stop allegedly shows the attackers launching out of their vehicles with bats, but police have yet to ask for the video as evidence.
"We are not racist. We're a big family and this is who we are," says Dee Cassell.

What is with that nonsensical non sequitur though. Gotten lazy with the excuses, knowing that local "justice" will always be on their side?

[tracher999]

i hope that that man fast back free is

respect fore the native american people they have richts to
america is from the natives not from that fucking skinheads

[Anarchist Skinhead]

well, as usual - history of fucking nazi scum helped by the pigs in uniforms. Despicable and disgusting piece of human shit the lot of them.

[Triple A]

Let me see if I understand: skinhead beat a native american because they dont like foreigners in their country? That makes sense

If that happened to me I would make sure to put my scarf and hoodie and teach that guy a lesson.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

This is why I got the fuck out of Nevada. I used to live on an Indian Reservation (even though I'm not actually Indian, the people were just nice enough to let us live there) for a bit and what they faced was bs. Regular police harassment and racist attacks like this. This pisses me off a lot. Next time I visit family out there in Fernley I'll definitely be searching for some skin heads.

[Ele'ill]

This is why we, activists and working class people, shouldn't talk or otherwise associate with police- Ever.

[Anarchist Skinhead]

This is why we, activists and working class people, shouldn't talk or otherwise associate with police- Ever.

buy that man a drink!

[Euronymous]

That's kind of like the situation up here in the Northwest. Pigs shot a half-deaf Native American for having a small knife and nothing came of them except some anti-police brutality marches by the Seattle Anarchists. We need to stand up and hunt for these fascist bastards! If no one will fight then this will surely continue.

Solidarity from Tacoma!

[Ele'ill]

I'm continuously concussed by the number of alleged 'leftists' who upon being presented with varying levels of panic inducing situations suggest to 'call the police' or 'yeah but we gotta because there's no other choice'. Your choice is not to be left in a police car to bleed to death, be sexually assaulted- repeatedly, left in a cell without food water and medical treatment of any kind, etc etc use your morbid imaginations or just do a google search.

[Susurrus]

These are the sort of people that make me think about starting up a gulag.

[bcbm]

Lyon County Sheriff’s Office
30 Nevin Way
Yerington, NV 89447
Phone: (775) 463-6600
Fax: (775) 463-6610

[Rusty Shackleford]

Link! i must repost this.

[Sasha]

Link! i must repost this.

http://rt.com/usa/news/nevada-bonta-family-lisa/

[Jimmie Higgins]

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwor...-by-skinheads/

Native American incarceration rates are about 38-40% higher than the general population, but worse than the numbers alone, places where native Americans are imprisoned are concentrated to Alaska and a few western states rather than being spread out which means that in these states it's much higher than 40%. So skinheads are just the sad tip of the iceburg.