SIMI VALLEY — Outrage and calls for justice continue to roil Simi Valley after cellphone footage captured a brutal assault on Michael Robinson, an 18-year-old Black teen, outside Regal Cinemas on Aug. 1. The video shows Robinson chased, beaten and targeted with racial slurs by a group of white teenagers, fueling demands for hate crime charges and sparking a heated debate about racial violence and accountability in Ventura County.

According to police, Robinson and a white friend were confronted around 11 p.m. in the theater parking lot, where the attackers reportedly slammed Robinson onto a car hood, shoved his head into a trash can, and struck him repeatedly in the back of the head.

Robinson, who sustained a concussion, cuts, bruises, and a chipped tooth, said he feared for his life as t

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