CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- Representatives of several black churches appealed to prosecutors Thursday to pursue hate-crime or civil-rights charges against six white people accused of torturing a black woman over several days.

Logan County prosecutors say they have not ruled out hate-crime charges but are focusing on the counts already filed, including kidnapping and sexual assault, which have tougher maximum sentences. Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, have not sought civil-rights charges.

"The family is aghast and totally devastated by the findings of the Logan prosecutor that this barbaric, heinous, despicable [crime] is not one of racial hatred," said the Rev. Emanuel Heyliger of the Ferguson Memorial Baptist Church in Dunbar.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/13/woman.tortured.ap/index.html

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The prosecutor is urging 'patience' with the nigger community. We all know how reasonable and patient they tend to be, so I really, really hope they don't riot or act rashly. </end sarcasm>