Indianapolis man sentenced to 46 months in prison for racist harassment of Black neighbor
A Indianapolis man was sentenced to 46 months in prison after he admitted to harassing his Black neighbor. Shepherd Hoehn, 51, has been sentenced for making racially-charged threats to intimidate and interfere with his neighbor, according to WRTV. U.S. District Court Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson issued the federal prison sentence for violating the criminal provision of the Fair Housing Act and unlawfully possessing firearms.
In the summer of 2020 Hoehn was arrested and charged after tormenting his Black neighbor by burning a cross, displaying a swastika, and posting up a sign that displayed racist slurs toward his neighbor’s property. Hoehn repeatedly played the song “Dixie” and threw eggs at the neighbor’s house.
Hoehn’s issues with his neighbor come from them cutting down a tree on their property. Hoehn was outraged at the decision and decided to make their life “miserable,” according to what he told the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He pled guilty to the harassment charges in earlier this year.
“Every person in the United States has the right to live in their home free from the threat of violence based on race,” Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said, Indy Star reports.
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