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Man threatens Equality president by Murad Khalllev Sentinel Reporter Joshua Buehner. 19. said his Sll'Ong beliefs in hum:1n and civil righ1.s will not be changed even after o racist insult against him Thursday. Oot. 9. Buchner. president of the NIC Human Equality Club. said that while walking to his truck ofter c lass. he was npproachcd by a man who called him a " nigger lover" and tmer spot on him. '"We know you think you can protect them."' Buehner quoted the man as saying. '"We think you are just like one of them."' Buehner reponcd the incident 10 Coeu r d. Alene police the next day. and it is under the investigation. According 10 police repon, the suspect is a white male, in his early 20s. about 6 foot, has light brown hair nnd wa.~ wcnring sunglasses. After the suspect insulted Buchner verbnlly and hit him on the right arm. the report said the man walked away through the library parking lot. " I got in my truck. locked the doors. focused on what happened nnd went home," Buehner said. After calling Human Equali ty Club adviser Tony Stewart. photo by Noppodol Paothong Buehner said he nnd Stewart met with interim Prc.sidcnt Silke Anderson, second-year nursing student, gets ready to administer a Ou shot to a Ronald Bell concerning the incident. leary Walt Carlson, vocational carpentry instructor. NJC Student Health Services
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offered free shots for students and charged $3 for employees on Oct. 16-17 and 21-22.
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Wrestler in altercation at Zip's by Brandon Koonl1 Sentinel Reponer No charges were filed against an NIC wres1ter who was allegedly involved in a brawl that left another man unconscious with a broken arm Sept. 30. said Mike Wolf of tbe Coeur d'Alene Police Depanment. According 10 police reports, rwo men started the dispute when they drove through Zip's Drive-In on Sherma n Avenue about 8 p.m. making derogatory comments 10 some high school students
standi ng in the parking lot. Witnesses told Coeur d' Alene Police the men began laughing and making comments 10 a t 5-year-old female s tudent from Lake Ci1y High School. She reportedly asked lhe men if they had a staring problem and if they would like 10 talk about it. Witnesses said they yelJed obscenities at each other and the men drove away. Police report s said 1h01 about five minutes later. the men returned with a "very large" friend, a wrestler from NIC.
All three go t out of 1he carr and approached lhe girl and her friends who were in a group of 20-25 people. They demanded an apology. The wrc.stler 1old police lhat his friends were offended at being cussed out. They were not from this country and dido ' I understand why lhe girl would talk 10 them this way. T he wrestler told police that things had calmed down when Dean Stevens, a 26-year-old Coeur d. Alene man, come out of Zip's and told t hem. "Don't be dissin' the home-girls.'' Stevens took off
his shin and approached the wrestler. At this point, the s1a1cmenlS given by 1he witnesses and the wrlllotler differ ns to what happened next. The wrestler told police that the crowd made a circle around him and Stevens. He said Stevens pushed him and hit him in the left eye. so he knocked Stevens 10 l11e ground. He said Stevens got back up and he grabbed Steven's head and threw him 10 the ground ngain. Stephen Birmingham. a witness to lhe
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