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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Salt Lake County man admits he encouraged his friends to attack a man last year because of his race.
Yesterday, 43-year-old David Lance Gardner pleaded guilty in connection with the beating of a black man.
The victim was knocked off his bike, kicked, punched and assaulted with a beer bottle.
Gardner says he and 25-year-old Keith Wayne Cotter and 22-year-old Robby Wayne Baalman had been drinking at several bars before the came upon the man that night.
Gardner say he told Cotter and Baalman to attack the man to make a statement that "these are our streets -- white streets."
Gardner is expected to be sentenced May 17th. He faces up to ten years in prison.
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