"When you start picking people off the clock tower remember to yell " I am going to love you all straight to hell!"
Posted on 03/21/2007 4:48:11 PM PDT by SmithL
New York (AP) -- A judge sentenced a man to 240 years in prison Wednesday for taking hostages in a bar and telling patrons that "white people are going to burn tonight."
State Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley told Steven Johnson, 39, who is black, that he had forfeited his "right to live in society."
Johnson, 39, was convicted March 1 of attempted murder, assault and other charges, including some designated as hate crimes.
Johnson invaded Bar Veloce, in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood, while nine men and six women were inside it June 16, 2002. He was carrying three pistols, a samurai sword and a container of kerosene.
He told police he had left the Brooklyn housing project where he lived and taken the subway to go look for "happy" white people
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This could set a precedent; I thought only white people could commit hate crimes. /sarc...sort of.
So attempted murder and threats to set people on fire ar OK so long as the perpetrator is of the same ethnicity, gender, and sexual preference as the intended victims?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Love crimes will rule the world....
When you start picking people off the clock tower remember to yell " I am going to love you all straight to hell!"
I don't care why they put him away. Just make sure they throw away the key.
Can someone please explain to me what is more of a "hate crime" than attempted murder?
wonder how long before that savage sharpton crawls off his porch and spouts off about this?
I hope both him and Tookie Williams burn in hell together.
Soon this guy will be a hero to the leftists, just like that cop killer. They will consider that the criminal's only wrongdoing was his failure to actually kill someone.
Did Al Sharpton hold a press conference in his behalf?
Was Jesse in front of a camera for this?
More NYC liberalism! It was plea bargained down from 700 years!
"When you start picking people off the clock tower remember to yell " I am going to love you all straight to hell!"
Certainly, all you have to do is commit a crime (murder, rape, assault) and also intentionally and with forethought attempt to hurt someone's FEELINGS.
According to headline I guess he wasn't convicted of assault, attempted murder and other crimes. Just 240 years for a hate crime. Barf.
Johnson, 39, was convicted March 1 of attempted murder, assault and other charges, including some designated as hate crimes.
The sentence is wrong-headed; he should have been sentenced to 120 years because whites are not endangered.
Geez how did he get those guns in NYC? Seriously though, glad to see this scum going away for a long, long time.
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