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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Sep 8, 2022, 03:25 PM Sep 2022

Monroe father gets 9 months for 'despicable' hate crime

MONROE — A Monroe father was sentenced Wednesday to nine months in jail for a hate crime that spurred a reckoning on race in the school district.

Under state sentencing guidelines, William Cunningham faced three to nine months in jail for threatening and repeatedly spewing racist slurs at a Black high school student. After Cunningham, 40, pleaded guilty last month, prosecutors recommended the low end of that range. The defense pushed for no time in custody.

Using words like “horrified,” “outrageous” and “despicable,” Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Millie Judge disagreed with both arguments, instead sentencing the defendant to the high end of the range.

The felony charges filed early this year stemmed from an incident Nov. 10, 2021, at Monroe High School. It started when Cunningham’s daughter, who is white, shoved a friend of the Black student in the school hallway. Her boyfriend reportedly told them to “take it outside.”

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/monroe-father-gets-9-months-for-despicable-hate-crime/

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Monroe father gets 9 months for 'despicable' hate crime (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
But a black woman gets 5 years for only words spoken. onecaliberal Sep 2022 #1
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