The Nation : 3 ‘Skinheads’ Charged in Beating Death

Three men belonging to a “skinhead” gang were arrested and charged in the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant a week ago, police in Portland, Ore., said. Kenneth Mieske, 23, Kyle Brewster, 19, and Steven Strasser, 20, were charged in what police said was a racially motivated attack on Mulugeta Seraw, 27, who had just been dropped off by friends in front of his home. The friends, who tried to intervene, suffered minor injuries. Seraw died a short time after the beating, in which his attackers used a baseball bat. Mieske and Brewster were charged with murder and remained in custody, police said at a news conference. The skinhead subculture emerged in London in the 1960s. Segments of the movement took on Nazi overtones in 1985 and since have been supported by and associated with the white supremacist Aryan Youth Movement and White Aryan Resistance.