SPLC Wins Another Against Klan

A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages yesterday to a 16-year-old Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because they mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino immigrant. The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded by Morris Dees, intends to bankrupt the Imperial Klans of America and drive it out of business as it has with other Klan groups. The victim, 16-year-old Jordan Gruver, is actually an American citizen of Panamanian and Native-American descent. Read more.