<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/809df283-b994-4df9-8f1f-73921dac5d87/F2DC8F2F-C682-4C49-8367-2394C717B761/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html" href="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ajc.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html"><H1 class="articleHeadline">FBI investigating restaurant beating as possible hate crime</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html"><P>Tashawnea Hill said she was punched and kicked so hard a week ago that her head still hurts.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html">"I have knots on my head," Hill, 35, told <A href="http://g.ajc.com/r/Cq/">CNN</A> Wednesday.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html"><P>Troy Dale West Jr., was arrested for kicking Hill and yelling racial slurs at her in front of a Morrow Cracker Barrel. West is out of jail, having posted a $12,150 bond.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html"><P>Police charged him with beating Hill, an army reservist, in front of her 7-year-old daughter.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html"><P>Police said witnesses, as well as a surveillance video, have confirmed her account, which the FBI is investigating as a possible hate crime.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html"><P>West is white. The woman is black.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html"><P>Witnesses told police that Hill kept telling West that she was in the Army.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html"><P>“She kept saying, ‘Sir, I’m a United States soldier, don’t do this,’ ” Morrow Police Capt. James Callaway said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html"><P>Hill said Wednesday that she is still in shock.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ajc.com/news/clayton/fbi-investigating-restaurant-beating-140459.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ajc.com/img/1B9D04BF-1DB9-4D97-A5BB-19C6940D01DD" alt=" Morrow police arrested Troy Dale West of Poulan after reviewing a video surveillance tape and talking to customers. 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