Two High School Football Players, Noel Garcia Jr and Rance Bolcik could be facing up to ten years in prison if found guilty on allegations that they dressed up as Ku Klux Klan members for Halloween and assaulted a Black teen in Woodsboro, Texas.
KRIS 6 News reports that:
A Refugio County grand jury indicted Noel Garcia Jr., who is Hispanic, and Rance Bolcik, who is white, on Thursday, Dec. 16, with two third-degree felony charges, engaging in organized criminal activity and tampering with evidence, after authorities say they attacked a 16-year-old Black boy with a stun gun on Oct. 31 and later burned the costumes they were wearing during the assault.
The boys, both football players at Woodsboro High in the southeast Texas town, dressed as Klan members when they terrorized the victim with the electroshock weapon, authorities say. Thus, both Garcia and Bolick’s two indictments will include hate crime enhancement.
The Texas Monthly also reports that:
All of the four students involved in this case (the two boys, the girl, and the victim) attend the Woodsboro High School. The victim actually plays on the same football team as Garcia and Bolcik. Texas Monthly reports has a one-minute video of the attack shot from a cellphone. The girl is filming. The footage is said to show the victim trying to get away from his attackers.
The victim says, “That’s not funny. Stop!”
“If you say their names, they’re gonna tase you,” the girl warns. The noise from the taser can be heard as she continues, “Get closer.”
“Surround him,” the girl instructs Garcia and Bolcik. “Surround him!”
“Chill,” the Black boy pleads, trying to dodge the boy dressed in a white sheet and handling the device.
“KKK,” the unnamed girl proclaims before instructing one to “get on this side of him” and saying to the other, “Get on that side.” The girl starts to giggle loudly.
The victim’s attorney, Matt Manning, had this to say:
“I’m heartened in so far as this indictment is proof positive that at least the citizens of the grand jury in Refugio County saw the evidence, saw that the evidence was indisputable, saw that what my client said happen did in fact happen, and they are now going to bring to account at least two of those people who were involved in that crime.”
In a press conference in November, Manning called the two students’ actions “heinous,” “inexcusable,” and “disgusting.”
“For you to dress up as a Klansmen you have a specific intent of terrorizing,” the attorney said. “That’s not an accident. That’s not kids being kids, that’s not boys being boys, that’s not hazing or high school high jinks. High school high jinks are egging somebody’s house, not dressing up as a Klansmen and tasing them.”
Garcia and Bolick now sit in a Refugio County jail with a $10,000 bond over their heads as they await trial.
I say put their asses in jail for the entire ten years.
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