Racists pay for their crimes

[kwassa]

As the defendants wept, a Douglas County judge on Monday sentenced two people to lengthy prison terms for their part in disrupting an African-American birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs and armed threats in 2015.

Superior Court Judge William McClain castigated the two, Kayla Rae Norton, 25, and Jose Ismael Torres, 26, for perpetrating what he called a hate crime.

He sentenced Torres to 20 years, with 13 to serve in prison. Norton was given 15 years, with six to serve. Upon their release, McClain ordered them to be permanently banished from Douglas County.

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Douglas Assistant District Attorney David Emadi detailed how the group had gone on a drunken rampage through Douglas and Paulding counties on July 24 and July 25, 2015, in pickup trucks laden with Confederate battle flags.

Emadi said the group threatened black motorists, yelled at them and walked up to one of their cars with a gun. They also threatened African-American shoppers at a Paulding County Wal-Mart and at a convenience store.

“Many good people in Paulding County saw you for what you are,” McClain said before he handed down the sentences. “Everywhere you went, 911 call centers were flooded with calls.”

[Iris]

1. There is a god. N/t

[Lifelong Protester]

2. Oh boo fu**king hoo!

Tears won't get you out of it, a**hole.

[Recursion]

3. Ha ha ha! They were also banished from the county

I'm not kidding. The sentence literally includes banishment from the county.

[bravenak]

4. Haaa haaaaa!

[sheshe2]

7. Yes!

[bravenak]

8. I loved their tears! Taste sweet like fine wine

[sheshe2]

9. I loved their tears as well.

Sweet sentence...cry me a river.

Justice!

[bravenak]

10. They deserve to be deported to north korea

[Eliot Rosewater]

15. A gun was involved? Is that why such harsh sentences?

These kind of hate mongering dumbshit assholes are running around threatening decent people everyday, can I assume a gun is the reason they get their asses kicked here?

I can read the info for myself, but the point would be what about the people making the same threats but not with a gun in their hand, nothing stopping them from going and getting one.

[sheshe2]

5. "Many good people... saw you for what you are"

“Many good people in Paulding County saw you for what you are,” McClain said before he handed down the sentences. “Everywhere you went, 911 call centers were flooded with calls,"

Justice! ... and a little bit of peace.

[brer cat]

11. I'm glad he said that.

So many racists think they in the company of people who agree with them. We can't convert them all, but we can drive them out of public. These two are where they belong.

[Docreed2003]

6. Good....

[aikoaiko]

12. Thank you Douglas County Judge William McClain, AG Donald Kleine, and Asst. AG David Emadi

You did your job and served the people (especially the victims) well.

Let's hope they serve as role models for other judges and prosecutors in GA and elsewhere.

[rogue emissary]

13. In my best Richard Sherman "You mad bro?"

[irisblue]

14. good news

Those 2 sure messed up a lot of near by lives with their racism and hate.

[Eliot Rosewater]

16. Link?

It was the gun that got their asses where they belong, I assume.

[kwassa]

17. The Atlanta Consitution

http://www.ajc.com/news/local/judge-orders-stiff-sentences-for-two-douglasville-hate-crime/pHWEb5zXxdVqGBGxGNtorI/

It was the guns and the rampage continued around the area. I don't know why more weren't charged.

[forjusticethunders]

18. when you see a title like that

you think it's some kind of satire. Not this time.