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On the night of November 12, 1988, Kenneth Murray "Death" Mieske, Kyle Brewster, and Steve Strasser, members of groups known as East Side White Pride and [[White Aryan Resistance]] (WAR), were driving around Portland with their girlfriends, intending to return home. The three confronted three black men, including Mulugeta, who had been dropped off in front of his apartment.[{{Cite news |date=November 21, 1988 |title=Three Are Charged in Attack Attributed to Neo-Nazi Gang |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/21/us/three-are-charged-in-attack-attributed-to-neo-nazi-gang.html |access-date=September 18, 2007 |work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |page=A16}}] As he tried to break up the fight, Mulugeta was beaten with a [[baseball bat]] on Southeast 31st Avenue by Mieske.[{{Cite news |date=October 24, 1990 |title=Lawyer makes racists pay |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |location=[[McLean, Virginia]] |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/56028630.html?dids=56028630:56028630&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+24%2C+1990&author=&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=02.A&desc=Lawyer+makes+racists+pay |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001000257/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/56028630.html?dids=56028630:56028630&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+24,+1990&author=&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=02.A&desc=Lawyer+makes+racists+pay |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 1, 2007 |access-date=September 18, 2007}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/196025010/ Clipping] at [[Newspapers.com]].] The three perpetrators and their girlfriends left him in a puddle of blood. He died the next day. |
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On the night of November 12, 1988, Kenneth Murray "Death" Mieske, Kyle Brewster, and Steve Strasser, members of groups known as East Side White Pride and [[White Aryan Resistance]] (WAR), were driving around Portland with their girlfriends, intending to return home. The three confronted three black men, including Mulugeta, who had been dropped off in front of his apartment.[{{Cite news |date=November 21, 1988 |title=Three Are Charged in Attack Attributed to Neo-Nazi Gang |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/21/us/three-are-charged-in-attack-attributed-to-neo-nazi-gang.html |access-date=September 18, 2007 |work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |page=A16}}] As he tried to break up the fight, Mulugeta was beaten with a [[baseball bat]] on Southeast 31st Avenue by Mieske.[{{Cite news |date=October 24, 1990 |title=Lawyer makes racists pay |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |location=[[McLean, Virginia]] |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/56028630.html?dids=56028630:56028630&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+24%2C+1990&author=&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=02.A&desc=Lawyer+makes+racists+pay |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001000257/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/56028630.html?dids=56028630:56028630&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Oct+24,+1990&author=&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=02.A&desc=Lawyer+makes+racists+pay |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 1, 2007 |access-date=September 18, 2007}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/196025010/ Clipping] at [[Newspapers.com]].] The three perpetrators and their girlfriends left him in a puddle of blood. He died the next day. |
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Mieske said he, Brewster, and Strasser killed Mulugeta "because of his race."[{{Cite news |date=May 3, 1989 |title=Guilt Admitted in Racial Killing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/03/us/guilt-admitted-in-racial-killing.html |access-date=November 18, 2007 |]work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |page=A23}} In response, hundreds of people turned out for rallies against racism. Meanwhile, [[Tom Metzger]], head of WAR, said the supremacists did a "[[civic duty]]" by killing the Ethiopian student.[{{Cite magazine |date=October 22, 1990 |title=Making War on WAR |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,971437-2,00.html |url-status=dead |access-date=September 18, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081108075115/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,971437-2,00.html |archive-date=November 8, 2008}}] |
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Mieske said he, Brewster, and Strasser killed Mulugeta "because of his race."[{{Cite news |date=May 3, 1989 |title=Guilt Admitted in Racial Killing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/03/us/guilt-admitted-in-racial-killing.html |access-date=November 18, 2007 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |page=A23}}] In response, hundreds of people turned out for rallies against racism. Meanwhile, [[Tom Metzger]], head of WAR, said the supremacists did a "[[civic duty]]" by killing the Ethiopian student.[{{Cite magazine |date=October 22, 1990 |title=Making War on WAR |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,971437-2,00.html |url-status=dead |access-date=September 18, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081108075115/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,971437-2,00.html |archive-date=November 8, 2008}}] |
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After one week of investigation, Mieske, Brewster, and Strasser were arrested. Brewster and Strasser were convicted of [[manslaughter]] and assault. Brewster was released in November 2002, but in 2006 violated parole and was sent back to prison.[{{Cite news |last=Herzog |first=Boaz |date=2006-05-20 |title=Man in infamous hate-crime killing arrested on violation of parole terms |url=http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/dcj/oregonlivemanininfamoushate-crime052006.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930224350/http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/dcj/oregonlivemanininfamoushate-crime052006.pdf |archive-date=2007-09-30 |newspaper=[[The Oregonian]]}}] Brewster was again released, and has been documented at [[Proud Boys]] rallies and fighting alongside them in brawls.[{{Cite web |date=January 18, 2021 |title=Kyle Brewster, convicted in notorious 1988 hate crime killing, seen at pro-Trump rallies in Salem, Portland |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2021/01/kyle-brewster-convicted-in-notorious-1988-hate-crime-killing-seen-at-pro-trump-rallies-in-salem-portland.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119133721/https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2021/01/kyle-brewster-convicted-in-notorious-1988-hate-crime-killing-seen-at-pro-trump-rallies-in-salem-portland.html |archive-date=January 19, 2021 |access-date=January 26, 2021}}] |
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After one week of investigation, Mieske, Brewster, and Strasser were arrested. Brewster and Strasser were convicted of [[manslaughter]] and assault. Brewster was released in November 2002, but in 2006 violated parole and was sent back to prison.[{{Cite news |last=Herzog |first=Boaz |date=2006-05-20 |title=Man in infamous hate-crime killing arrested on violation of parole terms |url=http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/dcj/oregonlivemanininfamoushate-crime052006.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930224350/http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/dcj/oregonlivemanininfamoushate-crime052006.pdf |archive-date=2007-09-30 |newspaper=[[The Oregonian]]}}] Brewster was again released, and has been documented at [[Proud Boys]] rallies and fighting alongside them in brawls.[{{Cite web |date=January 18, 2021 |title=Kyle Brewster, convicted in notorious 1988 hate crime killing, seen at pro-Trump rallies in Salem, Portland |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2021/01/kyle-brewster-convicted-in-notorious-1988-hate-crime-killing-seen-at-pro-trump-rallies-in-salem-portland.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119133721/https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2021/01/kyle-brewster-convicted-in-notorious-1988-hate-crime-killing-seen-at-pro-trump-rallies-in-salem-portland.html |archive-date=January 19, 2021 |access-date=January 26, 2021}}] |
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