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Culture of Hate

"KPBS investigates the story behind a gruesome hate crime committed in San Diego County."

In April 1999, three Lakeside brothers murdered a Mexican migrant worker by beating him to death. Producer Lee Harvey spent several months talking with Lakesiders--teachers, social workers, longtime residents and teens who are avowed racists--to unearth the reasons why kids wouldcommit this gruesome crime and why it happened in the peaceful, semi- rural town of Lakeside in eastern San Diego county