The last of four New York men accused of going on an anti-Black rampage following the election of Barack Obama pleaded guilty Monday to assault charges. Prosecutors said that Ralph Nicoletti, 18, and his cohorts attacked three African Americans in the hours after Obama was declared the winner. Brian Carranza, 21; and Michael Contreras and Bryan Garaventa, both 18, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to interfere with voting rights in January. Together, they “knowingly and intentionally” worked to intimidate Black voters, according to prosecutors. Read the rest here.

 Talk about hatin’ on Barack Obama …, three White men from New York were so angry that he had become the first African-American president that they went into a frenzy, yelling racial slurs and beating up Black folks, according to federal prosecutors. They even whipped a White man they thought was Black. “Shortly after learning of Barack Obama’s victory, [they] decided to find African Americans to assault in retaliation for an African-American winning the election,” prosecutors said in court papers Wednesday. Read the rest here.