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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.
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Hate Crime law must be deemed unconstitutional. It marginalizes the actual crimes while establishing legal divisions between groups.
Clearly a political persecution, hopefully it will be changed on appeal.
It does not matter if their names were Jose and Kayla, Billy Bob and Becky Sue or Mohammad and Akilah, they were making terrorist threats.
I have no sympathy for them.
35 years?! Murderers often get around 20. Sounds like the worst performance by a lawyer in the history of the legal profession.
It is the actions which can and should be punished. The motivation is immaterial so far as gauging penalties to be meted out is concerned.
No one was sentenced to 35 years.
But on any charge that's specifically of the "hate crime" variety I'll vote not guilty because I don't give a rat's hindquarters if the guy assaulted the victim because he was black.All I care about is that one person assaulted another without justification (race obviously isn't a justification).
“If the races were reversed would it even have been prosecuted as a misdemeanor?”
It is not a misdemeanor to wave a gun at a child and threaten to kill them.
I’ve got a confederate flag on my pickup. I better watch my speed when driving.
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They didn’t have much of a defense lawyer, to allow for this sentence.
A drunk person pointing a gun at children and threatening to kill them is pretty bad no?
Under prosecutorial discretion it can be unprosecuted, pled down, or prosecuted to the maximum.
I remember back in the 1960s when motorcycle gangs used to fly the Nazi flag, wear German helmets and metals. Very offensive but no one ever went to prison for doing so.
Then in the late 1960s, leftists began to shove the Viet Cong flag in everyone’s face. Again no one ever went to prison for doing so.
So now flying the Confederate battle flag can get you prison time? Something is wrong here.
“Threats to “kill”.Yes,punishment for that...even if there was no intention,or attempt,to carry out the threat.”
Party goers should have shot these after the threat. If they were so afraid, why didn’t anyone shoot them? Sounds like nobody took the threat seriously.
This is a joke, right?
“So now flying the Confederate battle flag can get you prison time?”
Especially if you are threatening to kill 7 year olds at the party.
This will never stand up to appeal.
“prosecuted to the maximum.”
Should have been shot dead by the folks right after the threat. That would have been a swift justice right there. This 35 year old is just the DA trying to build his career.
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