Sandy Wells of KABC radio had just finished conducting interviews of "parents, students and administrators of the Academia Semillas del Pueblo Charter School in El Sereno." KABC had been reporting that the school has been teaching the doctrine of separatism (the school is over 90% Mexican), and noted that the school has no white, black or Asian students.
Police said Wells had just finished his interviews and was calling his radio station when he saw a car coming toward him.Wells ran for his car, authorities said, but the car followed him. The driver got out of the silver sedan and assaulted Wells, police said, and tried to take his equipment but got only the tape.
Hot Air notes:
Wells, equipped with a KABC mic and recorder, said that when he inquired at the school's office about interviewing Aguilar, he was told the principal was not in and did not want to talk.The reporter asked the four or five black-garbed guards stationed outside for permission to interview parents as they arrived at the school with their children but was denied.
Then, according to Wells, the lady at the front desk came running out, angry, and a Dodge Magnum abruptly pulled up on the sidewalk just short of the reporter.
A large Hispanic man with a shaved head, about 25, leaped out of the vehicle and chased Wells down the street, tackled him and demanded the tape.
Wells, uninjured, said he turned over the tape, which had only ambient sound.
The guards offered no help, the reporter noted.
As Wells drove away, he noticed he was being tailed by a black SUV. The reporter called into McIntyre's show and was put on the air, hoping the exposure would prompt his pursuer to back off. The SUV eventually pulled away.
Talk radio host Doug McIntyre has reported that the school's principal and founder, Marcos Aguilar (who in college used his "Aztec" name "Huitzilixtlitiu"), has occasionally made racist statements, like this:
We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction.
Look, we can't have stuff like separatism and racism -- especially by minorities -- being reported on, now can we? (/sarcasm) That's just another way of the "Man" keeping the (in this case) Mexicans "down." As such, the sentence? Death by car bumper.