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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A 62-year-old white man convicted of attempting to run down six Black men at the site of the Rosewood massacre has been sentenced to a single year in prison.

David Allen Emanuel appeared solemn and reserved on Thursday as federal Judge Allen Winsor delivered the sentence on six counts of hate crimes for attempting to run over Historian Marvin Dunn, his son and four other Black men who were surveying Dunn’s Rosewood property to build a memorial for the massacre.

The judge’s sentence called for 12 months plus one day in federal prison for each of the six charges, which he allowed to run concurrently. The Justice Department had sought a “substantial” prison term of between five and six years.

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[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 156 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What a fucking joke.

A 1 year prison sentence for an attempted terrorist attack? WTF IS WRONG WITH LITERALLY EVERYONE IN THIS STORY? How is everyone talking about this like the guy made a racist joke, and should be forgiven just cause he's old, and not like he literally just tried to murder 6 people because of their race?

Jesus Christ.

[-] Pogbom@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

Seriously, can you imagine if it was a brown guy trying to kill 6 people because they're white?

[-] dumbluck@midwest.social 63 points 1 year ago

There would have been no trial at all. Brown driver would be dead before the vehicle stopped moving. There cops would have made sure of that.

[-] sock@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

the cops here were prolly watching like "oh shit he didnt kill any if them i guess we have to arrest him now"

[-] protist@mander.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

I think you misunderstood who was being quoted in the article...Marvin Dunn is the 83 year old historian and black man who was almost run over. He was the one calling for forgiveness and saying those things to the judge. I recommend you read it again with that perspective

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, I read it with that perspective and I stand by what I said. Marvin Dunn is probably a better human than me, since even though I'm fairly anti-carceral, I cannot fathom letting someone back on the streets a year after they tried to murder 6 people with a 4 ton piece of heavy machinery.

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