Illinois high school student posted racist ‘slave for sale’ ad on Craigslist with a photo of a Black classmate in 2019 has been sentenced to probation and 100 hours of community service A Illinois teen has been sentenced to probation and community service almost two years after he posted a fellow Black classmate as a […]
A white Iowa woman who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on federal hate crimes charges DES MOINES, Iowa — A white Iowa woman who said she drove her SUV into two children in […]
A Michigan man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday, Aug. 16, after an racially motivated attack in 2020, during which he broke the window of a Black family’s home and slashed tires of a car parked in the driveway. Michael Frederick, 25, has been sentenced by Judge Diane Druzinski in Macomb County […]
Paul Allard Hodgkins, one of the rioters who raided the Capitol on Jan. 6, was sentenced on Monday to eight months in prison. “If I had any idea that the protest … would escalate (the way) it did … I would never have ventured farther than the sidewalk of Pennsylvania Avenue,” Hodgkins told Judge Randolph […]
A former St. Louis police officer has been sentenced to 52 months in prison, after four years after he beat a Black officer who was working undercover during a protest in 2017. Randy Hays, 34, was facing up to 10 years in prison for being apart in the beating of Detective Luther Hall, however, will […]
An Michigan man has been sentenced on Thursday to 5 years in prison after he hit a Black teen in the face with a bike lock just because he was Black. Lee Mouat, 43, has been sentenced to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release after he pleaded guilty. The charges are […]
A white Michigan man was sentenced to prison for carrying out a racist attack against a Black teenager last year. A Detroit federal court judge ordered 43-year-old Lee Mouat to serve five years in prison for committing a hate crime against 18-year-old Devin Freelon Jr. on June 6, 2020, the Justice Department announced. The judge […]
Derek Chauvin, who was convicted earlier this year on charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for his involvement in George Floyd‘s death, was sentenced to over 20 years in prison on Friday. While prosecutors requested a 30-year prison sentence for the 45-year-old former Minneapolis officer, Chauvin’s defense attorney was asking for a more lenient punishment, CNN […]
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 […]
White St. Paul Officer Apologizes During Sentencing for Assaulting Innocent Black Man Was Already Getting Mauled By Police Dog A former St. Paul, Minnesota officer was sentenced to six years in prison by a federal court judge on Friday, May 21, for using excessive force against an unarmed civilian during a 2016 arrest involving a […]