The Seattle Times: Local News: Two arrested in alleged hate crime

The Spokane Human Rights Commission is decrying a violent attack on several Indian teen-agers last weekend by two men who claimed they were with the "KKK" and had painted swastikas on their chests. Jim Fry, 15, says two men he described as skinheads jumped him on a Spokane River beach Sunday afternoon and then attacked his companions, who were huddling in a van. The two men have been arrested. "The Spokane Human Rights Commission deplores this incident and reminds everyone that Spokane continues to declare a zero-tolerance policy towards hate crimes and deliberate abuse of human rights," the commission said yesterday in a news release.