CLERICAL ERROR OR SKEWED PRIORTIES?

TO ORIGINAL SOURCE

Seven Arrested in Beating of Richmond UPS Worker


RICHMOND, Calif. (KCBS/CBS 5) -- Seven people were arrested Saturday in connection with an attack on a UPS employee in Richmond that police are calling a hate crime.
Brandon Manning, who unloads boxes on the overnight shift at a UPS distribution center in Richmond, says he left work early last Saturday and was trying to hitch a ride home when his attackers approached him at a gas station in Pinole.

He says a group of young white men acted friendly and offered him a ride home. He says they were drinking and instead took him to Lamoine Park where he was then attacked.

Manning says his attackers shouted racial slurs as they beat him, causing six fractures to the side of his face.

A Richmond police officer took a report but it was not filed for several days because of a clerical error.

A spokesman for the Richmond police department said that once the error was brought to the department's attention by a member of Manning's family, police acted quickly and the seven men were taken into custody.

The Richmond branch of the NAACP says the lag time in reporting the crime is unacceptable and will investigate why the officer's report was delayed.