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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Mar 9, 2023, 09:54 PM Mar 2023

Mississippi man gets 42 months in prison for cross burning

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man who burned a cross in his front yard to intimidate his Black neighbors was sentenced Thursday to 42 months in prison.

U.S. Southern District of Mississippi Judge Sul Ozerden handed down the sentence after Axel Cox, 24, pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime in December.

Cox, of Gulfport, was charged with violating the Fair Housing Act over a December 2020 incident in which he put together a wooden cross in his front yard and propped it up so his Black neighbors could see it. He then doused it with motor oil and lit it on fire. He also addressed the family with racially derogatory language, records say.

“This cross burning was an abhorrent act that used a traditional symbol of hatred and violence to stoke fear and drive a Black family out of their home,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mississippi-man-gets-42-years-235915698.html

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Mississippi man gets 42 months in prison for cross burning (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2023 OP
Excellent!!! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2023 #1
Title correction Throck Mar 2023 #2
Looks like they updated the article Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2023 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author SharonClark Mar 2023 #3
42 months, not years Celerity Mar 2023 #4
Yes they updated the article Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2023 #9
+1 Celerity Mar 2023 #11
42 years is not just for this. That's longer than many murder sentences. NutmegYankee Mar 2023 #6
This story has been updated to correct that Cox was sentenced to 42 months in prison, not 42 years Celerity Mar 2023 #10
Yes, I noticed after the fact and added an edit. NutmegYankee Mar 2023 #12
42 months, not years. Dr. Strange Mar 2023 #7
Good NowISeetheLight Mar 2023 #8
In your face Lynyrd Skyntrd! GreenWave Mar 2023 #13
Just look at this racist MagickMuffin Mar 2023 #14

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NutmegYankee

(16,177 posts)
6. 42 years is not just for this. That's longer than many murder sentences.
Thu Mar 9, 2023, 10:03 PM
Mar 2023

Don't get me wrong, he's a scumbag, but the civil libertarian in me can't support obscene punishments either.

On edit, it appears the online article made a mistake and has been corrected to months.

Celerity

(42,646 posts)
10. This story has been updated to correct that Cox was sentenced to 42 months in prison, not 42 years
Thu Mar 9, 2023, 10:06 PM
Mar 2023
as an initial Justice Department news release stated.

GreenWave

(6,492 posts)
13. In your face Lynyrd Skyntrd!
Thu Mar 9, 2023, 11:18 PM
Mar 2023

Go get 'em Neil! (Rant my stupid alternative radio station plays Sweet Home Alabama way too much!)

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