BUT
BUT WASHINGTON HAS THE FOURTH MOST CASES OF HATE CRIMES OF ANY STATE IN THE COUNTRY.
GOOD EVENING.
I'M JOYCE TAYLOR AND WELCOME TO
FACING RACE.
TONIGHT WE START WITH THE
BRUTAL BEATING OF A LATINO
TEENAGER IN SCATCH COUNTY.
WAS IT A HATE CRIME?
WE ARE FACING RACE HAVE
UNCOVERED EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
OF THIS ATTACK AS IT HAPPENED.
SUSANNA FRAME LOOKS DEEPER INTO
WASHINGTON'S NEW HATE CRIME
LAW.
THIS STORY INCLUDES GRAPHIC
VIDEO AND AUDIO THAT MAY BE
UPSETTING TO SOME VIEWERS.
YOU'RE WATCHING AND LISTENING
TO 17 JEWEL SALGADO HAVING A
SEIZURE FROM BLOWS TO THE HEAD
DECISION TO GET HIS ATTACKER
CONTINUES TO BEAT HIM KICKING
HIM HERE IN THE LOWER BACK
SCREAMING PROFANITIES INCLUDING
REPEATEDLY CALLING HIM THE
N-WORD.
HE SAYS DOBRO EVENTUALLY
JOELLE, THOSE UNCONSCIOUS.
>> BUT THE ASSAULT CONTINUES
WITH A SLAP ACROSS THE FACE.
I SAID WOW.
>> AND WHAT HE LIES THERE
LIFELESSLY?
POLICE RECORDS SHOW THE ACCUSED
19 YEAR OLD TREVOR MCCABE
DOESN'T CALL NINE ONE ONE.
INSTEAD HE SPLASHES WATER ON
JOELLE FROM THE DOG BOWL IN THE
VIDEO AND RIDICULES HIM OVER
WHAT POLICE SAY HE'S PLANNING
TO STEAL YOUR NICE PHONE TO MY
SMASH HOMIE DOG.
>> BUT WHEN HE BROKE NICE WELL
NICE CHAINS DOG WAS SO YOUR ARE
MY NEW SHOES TO GIVE YOU A NEW
NEW PAIR OF HANDS.
JEWEL BEGINS TO COME TO
ACCORDING TO COURT DOCUMENTS
UNABLE TO SPEAK OR STAND.
>> WHAT HAPPENED BRO?
WHAT HAPPENED BRO.
AND UNDERNEATH HIS REDACTED
FACE POLICE SAY TREVOR MCCABE
HAS USED A SHARPIE TO SCRAWL A
HOMOPHOBIC SLUR ACROSS HIS
FOREHEAD.
SAY SOMETHING.
>> SAY SOMETHING.
>> POLICE SAY MCCABE DIDN'T
JUST RECORD THE VICIOUS ATTACK
.
HE SENT HIS VIDEOS OUT ON
SOCIAL MEDIA VIA SNAPCHAT TO
HIS FRIENDS IN REAL TIME,
INCLUDING THIS FINAL VIDEO
WHERE HE ALLEGEDLY POINTS A
LOADED SHOTGUN AT JOEL'S CAR IN
THE DISTANCE.
SOMEHOW HE MANAGED TO STUMBLE
INTO IT AFTER THE BEATING.
>> WHEN YOU'VE GOT TO PULL A
GUN ON MEDICS HELICOPTER
CHERWELL TO HARBORVIEW
ACCORDING TO RECORDS HE'D
SUFFERED LIFE THREATENING
INJURIES, SIGNIFICANT SKULL
FRACTURES AND INTERNAL BLEEDING
.
HE COULDN'T TALK OR BREATHE ON
HIS OWN.
THE HARBORVIEW TEAM SAID THE
OUTCOME QUOTE DID NOT LOOK
GOOD.
>> WHOLE PLAN SAYS LOOK, I HOPE
SO, SWEETHEART.
THIS IS JOEL'S MOM ROSCIO
LEONARDOS OF BURLINGTON.
I ASKED HER IN SPANISH HOW SHE
WAS PROCESSING WHAT HAD
HAPPENED TO HER SON.
IS THE LORD.
IT IS SO PAINFUL, SO PAINFUL TO
SEE YOUR SON LIKE THAT IN BED.
>> IT'S SOMETHING THAT I
WOULDN'T WISH ON ANY MOTHER,
LET ALONE A CHILD.
AFTERWARD HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW
OR REMEMBER THAT I WAS HIS
MOTHER.
IT WAS DIFFICULT AFTER TWO
MAJOR BRAIN SURGERIES AND WEEKS
IN THE HOSPITAL.
JOELLE SURVIVED.
HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE ON CAMERA
FOR SAFETY REASONS AS THE
DEFENDANT IS OUT ON BAIL.
>> THE REMEMBER?
JOEL DOESN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING
ABOUT THE CRIME OR THE MONTHS
LEADING UP TO IT.
>> BUT POLICE PIECED THE NIGHT
TOGETHER SAYING THE TWO BOYS
WERE ACQUAINTANCES AT SCHOOL.
TREVOR MCCABE ALLEGEDLY LURED
JOEL TO HIS HOME THAT NIGHT IN
MARCH PROMISING TO SELL HIM
ALCOHOL WITH A PREMEDITATED
PLAN TO BEAT HIM UP.
>> CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE THAT
ALL THAT HAPPENED TO JUST
HAPPEN OUT OF NOWHERE?
I JUST REALLY CAN'T BELIEVE IT
HAPPENED TO ME.
>> SCHEDULE COUNTY PROSECUTORS
CHARGED MCCABE WITH TWO COUNTS
OF ASSAULT, ROBBERY AND
TAMPERING WITH A WITNESS WITH A
PLAN TO SEEK AN EXTRAORDINARY
SENTENCE BECAUSE OF MCCABE'S
DELIBERATE CRUELTY TO THE
VICTIM AND EGREGIOUS LACK
OF REMORSE.
>> WE HAVE SCOURED THE COUNTY
COURTHOUSE DOWN HERE MT. VERNON
JUSTICE FOR JOkL JOYAL WAS
BEATEN SO BAD IN THE COUNTY
ATTORNEY RIGHT HERE AT THIS
BUILDING SAYS IT WASN'T A HATE
CRIME BUT THOSE CHARGES WEREN'T
GOOD ENOUGH FOR MANY IN THE
COMMUNITY.
>> SEVERAL PROTESTS WERE HELD
OVER THE SUMMER.
THAT'S JOELLE IN THE HELMET
WITH HIS FAMILY IN JUNE.
>> WE JUST WANT JUSTICE.
THAT'S ALL WE WELL, WE JUST
WANT JUSTICE.
THIS WAS A HATE CRIME AND HE
SHOULD BE CHARGED A HATE CRIME.
>> THE ADVOCATES SAY
PROSECUTORS NEED TO ADD A HATE
CRIME BECAUSE OF THE RACIAL
SLURS SPEWED AT JOEL AND
DEHUMANIZING WRITING ACROSS HIS
FOREHEAD.
>> YES, IT IS TROUBLING TO ME
THAT THE PROSECUTOR DID NOT
CHARGE THE ATTACKER WITH A HATE
CRIME LAST YEAR.
REPRESENTATIVE HARVEY VALDES
OF SEATTLE SPONSORED THE
STATE'S FIRST EVER HATE CRIME
BILL.
NOW IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
,A PERSON IS GUILTY OF A HATE
CRIME IF THE OFFENSE WAS
MOTIVATED BY RELIGION, SEXUAL
ORIENTATION OR RACE, HE PUSHED
FOR IT.
AFTER HEARING WASHINGTON STANDS
OUT AS A PLACE WHERE HATE
CRIMES ARE ON THE RISE,
ACCORDING TO DATA FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
WASHINGTON HAD MORE REPORTED
HATE CRIMES IN 2018 THAN NEARLY
EVERY OTHER STATE AND 500 SIX.
ONLY CALIFORNIA, NEW JERSEY AND
NEW YORK REPORTED MORE CRIMES
MOTIVATED BY HATE CRIMES.
IT'S ALARMING.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT THE STATE
WHERE YOU KNOW, I WAS I WAS
BORN AND RAISED IN AND SO I WAS
TRYING TO TAKE SOME ACTION ON
IT.
RECORDS SHOW SCHEDULE COUNTY
DID LOOK INTO ADDING A HATE
CRIME CHARGE BUT IN THE END
PROSECUTORS SAID THEY COULDN'T
PROVE THAT WAS THE MOTIVATION
FOR THE ASSAULT.
THE FBI CAME IN AND AGREED WITH
THAT DECISION.
INVESTIGATIVE RECORDS OBTAINED
BY KING FIVE SHOW POLICE FOUND
IT WAS ANGER AND JEALOUSY OVER
A GIRL, NOT RACE.
THAT LED TO THE BEATING.
>> AND WE REACHED OUT TO
PROSECUTOR NINA MARTINEZ IS
BOARD CHAIR OF THE LATINO CIVIC
ALLIANCE, ONE OF THREE ADVOCACY
GROUPS WHO SAY WHEN THEY
REACHED OUT TO THE PROSECUTOR
FOR ANSWERS THEY DIDN'T HEAR
BACK.
IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE JUST
SAYING BASIC COMMUNICATION
ENTERING INTO DIALOG WOULD HAVE
MEANT SO MUCH TO YOU IN THE
COMMUNITY.
YES, IT WOULD HAVE MEANT A
GREAT DEAL BECAUSE THAT WOULD
HAVE PROVEN THAT THAT THE
COMMUNITY MATTERS THAT THEY
RESPECT THE COMMUNITY.
THIS IS REAL DIALOG THAT NEEDS
TO HAPPEN AND A REAL
APPRECIATION FOR DIFFERENT
CULTURES.
AND IT HAS TO BE DONE.
THAT'S THE ONLY WAY IT'S GOING
TO BUILD TRUST THIS SPRING.
JOEL SALGADO GRADUATED FROM
HIGH SCHOOL.
HE'S RELEARNED TO TALK, WALK
AND READ BUT STILL STRUGGLES
WITH CONSTANT PAIN, BALANCE AND
COGNITION.
THERE'S LOTS OF HEALING NEEDED
AND HIS FAMILY SAYS THAT WILL
GET EASIER IF SOMEHOW THEY FIND
JUSTICE.
>> HE LOOK ON ONE KNEE THOUGH
THIS DEMOCRAT COMMUNITY IS
ANGRY.
I AM VERY APPRECIATIVE FOR
THEIR SUPPORT, THEIR PRAYERS
AND THEIR PROTEST.
BUT I HAVE TO SEE THE SITUATION
FROM THE EYES OF THE MOTHER
OF THE VICTIM.
THE ONLY THING I WANT IS
JUSTICE FOR MY CHILD.
HE IS MY ONLY SON AND HE IS
EVERYTHING TO ME.
>> SUSANNA FRAIM JOINS US
TONIGHT.
SUSANNA, THIS VIDEO IS JUST
HORRIFYING.
IN ALL YOUR YEARS
OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING,
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING
LIKE THIS?
ABSOLUTELY.
NOT.
ABSOLUTELY. NOT. I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SO
CALLOUS.
AND SUCH A DISREGARD FOR HUMAN
LIFE AND A HUMAN BEING A YOUNG
ONE AT THAT THEN WHAT WE SEE IN
THIS VIDEO THAT'S NOT TO SAY
OF COURSE THESE HORRIBLE THINGS
DON'T HAPPEN BUT HOW UNUSUAL IS
IT?
THAT VIDEO WAS TAKEN OF THE ACT
WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING AND THEN
SHARED ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND WE
WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN IT.
SO I THINK IT REALLY GIVES A
WINDOW INTO JUST HOW HORRIFIC A
CRIME CAN BE.
>> SO SUZANNE, IF WHAT WE'VE
SEEN ON THIS TAPE ISN'T A HATE
CRIME, WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO
RISE TO THAT LEVEL?
YOU KNOW, MOTIVATION IS THE
KEY.
>> AND WHAT PROSECUTORS THINK
THEY CAN PROVE AND THEY HAVE A
TOUGH JOB MOTIVATION IS ONE
OF THE HARDEST THINGS IN LAW
ENFORCEMENT TO PROVE.
SO IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE
RACIAL SLURS BEING SPEWED OUT
DURING THE COMMISSION OF A
CRIME BUT THAT NOT BE THE
MOTIVATION THAT THEY CAN PROVE
IN THIS CASE.
FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE ATTACKER
WOULD HAVE BEEN SAYING TO THIS
HISPANIC YOUNG MAN GO BACK TO
MEXICO.
I HATE IMMIGRANTS.
YOU KNOW WE DON'T NEED YOU IN
THIS COUNTRY.
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A MUCH
EASIER I'M ASSUMING CORRELATION
BETWEEN WHAT THE ATTACKERS
PERCEPTION OF THIS YOUNG MAN'S
RACE IS AND WHY HE MIGHT HAVE
BEEN COMMITTING THE CRIME AT
THE TIME.
>> IS THERE ANYTHING HAPPENING
IN OUR STATE TO ENHANCE OUR
HATE CRIME LAWS?
THIS UPCOMING SESSION WE'RE
DEFINITELY GOING TO BE KEEPING
OUR EYE ON IT WHEN THAT HATE
CRIME BILL WAS PASSED LAST
YEAR.
THEY KNEW THERE WAS MORE WORK
TO DO SO THIS YEAR WHAT THEY
WANT TO DO IS PUT IN STATUTE
WHAT THEY WANT POLICE SCHOOLS
AND YES PROSECUTORS TO DO WHEN
DETERMINING IF THEY HAVE A HATE
CRIME ON THEIR HANDS.
FOR EXAMPLE, MANDATING THAT
THEY NEED TO BRING IN AN EXPERT
PERHAPS TO LOOK OVER MAKE SURE
THE RIGHT QUESTIONS WERE ASKED.
AND LET ME TELL YOU THE LATINO
COMMUNITY, THE PEOPLE OF COLOR
UP IN THIS GADGET COUNTY WHO
CAME OUT