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neo-Nazi skinhead
incident in Orlando
has brought to light
the problem of hate-group
activity in Florida and the
steps that are currently be-
ing taken to combat it.
"Hate-motivated crime is a
serious problem," said Ar-
thur Teitelbaum, Florida re-
gional director of the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith. "At the moment
we're seeing a distressing
increase in these crimes."
Florida, which reported 66
incidents of bias-related
crime in 1989, is one of the
"big five," the states with
the highest number of re-
ported hate crimes in the
country, according to the
ADL annual Audit of Anti-
Semitic Incidents.
The latest incident oc-
curred June 4 at a housing
project in Orlando, where a
group of neo-Nazi skinheads
sprayed the outer walls of an
apartment with swastikas
and anti-Semitic slogans and
shattered windows with
large iron bars.
The victim, Richard
Nichols, was not Jewish, but
had once been married to a
Jewish woman. The four
shaven-headed youths, all 18
and 19 years old, are self-
proclaimed white
supremacists and punk
rockers.
All parties involved were
intoxicated, according to the
Orlando Police Department
report, and the incident took
on some of the
characteristics of a drunken
brawl. The crimes are never-
theless punishable under
Florida's Hate Crimes Act
for their overt anti-Semitic
intent.
The youths were arrested
and charged with kidnapp-
ing, aggravated assault,
burglary, criminal mischief,
impersonating a police offi-
cer and interfering with a
police officer.
"They are nothing but a
bunch of punks coming from
middle- class, white homes,"
said Randy Means, spokes-
man for the Orlando state
attorney. "Gangs like these
are becoming a larger and
larger problem."
In May, windows in an
Orlando synagogue were
shot out and two weeks ago,
Orlando police were tipped
off to a neo-Nazi telephone
recording which featured

segments of Hitler's
speeches and lessons in how
to kill a Jew. The recording
was disconnected as soon as
the police began to in-
vestigate.
Orlando has experienced
tremendous growth over the
last decade. Means at-
tributes the increasing bias-
related violence to the grow-
ing number of minorities
that have moved into the
city. As he says, "we were
just a country city until 10
years ago."
But Orlando is not the only
city in Florida experiencing
violence of this type. In
Tampa, swastikas were re-
cently painted on the walls

One recording
featured segments
of Hitler's
speeches and
lessons in how to
kill a Jew.

of an apartment complex
and at a construction site.
The entire state, with its
high concentrations of
Hispanic immigrants and
post-retirement Jews, has
been experiencing heighten-
ed ethnic conflict.
"Florida's high level of
hate crime incidents is par-
tially due to its large Jewish
community," said Alan
Schwartz, director of the
ADL's research and evalua-
tion department. "They pro-
vide more targets of oppor-
tunity for organized Ku
Klux Klan," neo- Nazi and
New Alliance Party activity.
But Teitelbaum thinks the
problem is more socio-
economic than ethnic. "Bias
crimes are not geographical-
ly specific. They occur in
greater frequency where
there is a considerable
amount of economic and so-
cial dislocation. Many times
these crimes occur as a con-
sequence of organized ex-
tremist groups trying to ex-
ploit intergroup tensions,"
he said.
Because of the seriousness
of the hate-crimes problem,
the Florida State
Legislature last year passed
one of the toughest hate-
crimes acts in the country. It
became effective in October
1989.
The Hate Crimes Act in-
creases the penalties for an
offense by one grade of seri-
ousness. A second-degree

