Posted on 11/14/2008 5:36:36 PM PST by SeafoodGumbo
A black man from Mississippi has been arrested and accused of sending racist death threats over the Internet to three black students at Louisiana's Nicholls State University.
The FBI in New Orleans said Dyron Hart, 19, was arrested Wednesday. He is accused of sending the messages by way of the students' Facebook accounts. The messages contained racial epithets and death threats and were sent to two black women and a black man at Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La.
The author of those messages cast himself as a white man who intended to kill blacks because Barack Obama was elected president.
Hart told an FBI agent that he sent the messages to "get a reaction," according to the agent's sworn statement.
The criminal complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in New Orleans. U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's office said Hart made his initial court appearance in Biloxi. It was unclear when he would be brought to New Orleans.
Although the case sprang from a probe into messages sent to the three Nicholls State students, the FBI agent's statement said Hart also admitted sending the message to students at other institutions, including LSU, the University of Mississippi and the University of Alabama.
An FBI news release said Hart, if convicted, would face a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
Repeatedly using an obscenity and the N-word, the author of the message threatens to kill more than 3,000 black people in a month because of Obama's election and warns the recipient of a pending attack from "a random white man," according to the agent's affidavit.
Neither Hart nor his family could not be reached for comment. The phone number listed at his home address was not in service.
Colton Brodoux was the name of the person who purportedly sent the messages. "Hart admitted that he created the Colton Brodoux profile on Facebook," the FBI affidavit said. The document details how the FBI traced the messages back to a computer at Hart's Poplarville address in Mississippi.
More black on black crime.
sick
My, my, my. His EXCUSE was “to get a reaction.” Just what did this slime ball puke THINK the reaction would be? No, that was his EXCUSE once caught. Why, he may even say he did it as a home work assignment to get and judge how people would react to such threats. Again, how would he expect them to react? A “white man” posts racial threats and threats of physical harm and does he expect them to laugh? Of course, he will get off with a slight warning. No hate crime here.
Not too smart.
What a joke. We allow the media to fantasize that racism against blacks is a huge problem, when whites are scared silly to be seen as racist. There are so many laws and programs in place to protect and benefit blacks, billions are flowing in that direction every day.
With blacks a mere 10% of the population, we even convinced ourselves it was important to elect a black president.
I put it right up there with the belief polar bears are endangered.
What an idiot. He should have waited until Bambi took office to try tricks like this.
Yep.
Not to defend the guy, but under what law can they prosecute him?
You don’t say, if you use that word while posing as white, its a crime. If you use it while being black its a term of endearment.
What a world.
The sad fact is that a black person is more likely to be killed by a black than a white. Yet, the KKK is the bogeyman. When was the last time a KKK member was convicted of murder?
In fact, according the 2005 FBI Crime Stats, blacks are 7 times more likley to commit homicide than whites.
Blacks comprise 13% of the US population, yet commit 52% of the homicides.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm
Mississippi ping
To the Freeper than archived this under Keyword “FAKEHATECRIMES”...
well done.
Happens more then we know.
Just keepin’ the victim chant alive.
Don’t know, but genius here is headed to Federal Court.
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