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Georgia pair sentenced to combined 35 years for terrorizing black child's birthday party
http://www.nydailynews.com ^ | 02/27/2017 | Christopher Brennan

Posted on 02/27/2017 6:51:12 PM PST by BackRoads775

A Georgia man and woman cried in court Monday after they were both sentenced to long prison terms for terrorizing a black child’s birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs and threats.

Jose Ismael Torres and Kayla Rae Norton were convicted earlier this month under a street gang terrorism law for the 2015 harassment in Douglassville, outside Atlanta, and cried in court on Monday.

Video footage from the party, little more than a month after Dylann Roof’s Charleston church massacre, shows a parade of trucks roaring by with Confederate battle flags.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: atlanta; battleflag; birthday; chat; confederate; douglassville; gangs; jerks; joseismaeltorres; josetorres; kaylanorton; kaylaraenorton; localnews; racism; streetgangs
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1 posted on 02/27/2017 6:51:12 PM PST by BackRoads775
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To: BackRoads775
Jose Ismael Torres

Must be another one of those white Hispanics.

2 posted on 02/27/2017 6:53:24 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: BackRoads775

35 Years??????? SERIOUSLY???? I watch forensic files all the time and murderers don’t even get that much time


3 posted on 02/27/2017 6:53:35 PM PST by Hildy
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To: RegulatorCountry

One of those Argentinian descendants of the Confederate expats.


4 posted on 02/27/2017 6:54:14 PM PST by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: RegulatorCountry; Hildy

Look at the born-on date of the OP.


5 posted on 02/27/2017 6:55:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Hildy

20 years for one party, and 15 for the other. I wonder if they’d have gotten less time if they actually shot everyone instead of just talking about it.


6 posted on 02/27/2017 6:55:56 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Tax-chick

Must be maternal if so. That surname is Spanish.


7 posted on 02/27/2017 6:55:58 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: BackRoads775

seems a tad excessive


8 posted on 02/27/2017 6:57:19 PM PST by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Well, yeah. Assimilated after 150 years.

It looks, from the article, like this was a gang conflict for which one side chose a Confederate theme.


9 posted on 02/27/2017 6:57:23 PM PST by Tax-chick ("I prefer to think of myself as ... civilized." ~Jonathan Q. Higgins)
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To: BackRoads775

Absurd.


10 posted on 02/27/2017 6:57:24 PM PST by jimfree (My16 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: BackRoads775
1) Confederate flag? Who the **** cares!

2) Loud noise? Perhaps a fine.

3) Threats to "kill".Yes,punishment for that...even if there was no intention,or attempt,to carry out the threat.

4) Mentioning the race of the person you're threatening to kill means nothing!

Punishment for the threats...yes.

But 35 years is an outrage!

11 posted on 02/27/2017 6:58:16 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: BackRoads775

It was that terrible rebel flag that brought on the long incarcerations.


12 posted on 02/27/2017 6:58:40 PM PST by TYVets
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Boy I would hate to see the sentence for the people that kidnapped and video taped the assault on the disabled teen in Chicago.

Jordan Hill, 18; Tesfaye Cooper; 18; Brittany Covington, 18; and Tanishia Covington, 24, have each been charged with a hate crime, felony aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

13 posted on 02/27/2017 6:59:25 PM PST by greenishness
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To: BackRoads775
This is a precedence that could backfire some day on some ‘racists of color’.
14 posted on 02/27/2017 6:59:58 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: BackRoads775

The purpose of hate-crime laws is reparations.


15 posted on 02/27/2017 7:00:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: BackRoads775

Don’t agree with what the guy did. I do think 35 years is a bit much.

While I detest this sort of thing, some perspective is still expected at the time of sentencing.

I didn’t read more than was presented here. Perhaps there’s more to it, and if it does warrant additional time, I’m not opposed to it.

I detest racism.


16 posted on 02/27/2017 7:00:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: greenishness

It will be less than 5 years each.


17 posted on 02/27/2017 7:00:55 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Who terrorizes a kids birthday party ?

Honestly, They don’t need 20 years in jail....they need a good ass kickin’


18 posted on 02/27/2017 7:02:06 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: BackRoads775

If the races were reversed would it even have been prosecuted as a misdemeanor?
If there isn’t a lot more to the incident the “street gang” conviction is insane.


19 posted on 02/27/2017 7:02:37 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: BackRoads775
Norton, who according to the Journal-Constitution is the mother of Torres's children, was sentenced to 15, serving six, for terroristic threats and street gang terrorism.

Wait! We can't break up families. I got it directly from the left, you have to ignore the law for the sake of families.

20 posted on 02/27/2017 7:03:11 PM PST by Yogafist
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