Council Offers $25,000 for Information on Attack
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The Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to offer a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two men who seriously beat the principal of Burton Street Elementary School in Panorama City.
Principal Norman Bernstein was hospitalized after the Feb. 1 beating in front of the school and later said his attackers told him they did not want him at the school because he is white.
As a result, the Los Angeles Police Department has been investigating the case as a possible hate crime.
“I share the same revulsion that everyone else would share,” said Councilman Joel Wachs, who brought in the reward motion.
“That [beating] is not the way we resolve our differences in this society and we can’t allow that kind of hatred to fester,” Wachs said.
When added to identical rewards offered by the Board of Supervisors and the school board, the city reward brings to $75,000 the amount of money offered for information in the unsolved case.
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