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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 Departments Civil Rights Division.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mississippi-man-gets-42-years-235915698.html
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Throck
(2,520 posts)Mississippi man gets 42 months in prison for cross burning.
Tis months.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)42 years does seem a bit much. Not that I feel sorry for the guy.
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Celerity
(42,646 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)The link however still says 42 years.
Celerity
(42,646 posts)NutmegYankee
(16,177 posts)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)NutmegYankee
(16,177 posts)Thats a big oops from the website folks.
Dr. Strange
(25,898 posts)That sounded like a hell of sentence at first.
NowISeetheLight
(3,941 posts)Real AMERICA is a melting pot. These racist scum have no place in a society.
GreenWave
(6,492 posts)Go get 'em Neil! (Rant my stupid alternative radio station plays Sweet Home Alabama way too much!)