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USA: Demonstration in support of disabled boy attacked by gang

Posted 13/7-10 at 00.45

Over 100 people gathered in front of City Hall in Havana, Illinois to demand action to protect Cory Miller, a 16-year-old wheelchair user, and to find and prosecute the youths who viciously attacked him on Saturday afternoon on Main Street.

This was the third such incident experienced by Cory since 2008. On this occasion a group of boys sprayed him in the face, pushed his wheelchair to a local park and then assaulted him in the public toilets.

Cory attended the City Hall rally with a placard on his chair. It read, "I deserve justice and freedom."

http://www.pjstar.com/news/x104354207/Residents-react-to-assault-of-boy-in-wheelchair

Reports of the other attacks can be found at:

http://www.62644.com/2008/OCTOBER/StreetsOfFear.html

http://www.62644.com/2009/JANUARY2009/CoryMiller-Havana%27sPrisoner.html">http://www.62644.com/2009/JANUARY2009/CoryMiller-Havana%27sPrisoner.html