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SouthernProgressive

(1,810 posts)
Fri Jun 28, 2019, 02:54 PM Jun 2019

The Latest: FBI: White Supremacist James Fields sentenced to life in prison

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of a man who deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally.

An avowed white supremacist who drove his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters during a white nationalist rally in Virginia has been sentenced to life in prison on hate crime charges.

James Alex Fields Jr. of Maumee, Ohio, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in March to federal hate crime charges in an attack that killed one person and injured more than two dozen others.


AP



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The Latest: FBI: White Supremacist James Fields sentenced to life in prison (Original Post) SouthernProgressive Jun 2019 OP
K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Jun 2019 #1
The BGF busily preparing a welcoming party. Sneederbunk Jun 2019 #2
White Supremacist James Fields sentenced to life in prison Morgunn47 Jun 2019 #3
He has been removed from society. SouthernProgressive Jun 2019 #4
IMO, life is worse than the DP TruckFump Jun 2019 #6
He had asked for leniency. sheshe2 Jun 2019 #5

Morgunn47

(7 posts)
3. White Supremacist James Fields sentenced to life in prison
Fri Jun 28, 2019, 03:13 PM
Jun 2019

Fuck that. Fry the bastard. White supremacist groups, all of them, should be classified as terrorist organizations and should be treated as such. Free speach is our right but not free "hate" speach. We need to look at changing this to get hate mongers out of our society.

 

SouthernProgressive

(1,810 posts)
4. He has been removed from society.
Fri Jun 28, 2019, 03:14 PM
Jun 2019

There should be no punishment greater than life in prison. Even that should be used only in very rare instances.

TruckFump

(5,812 posts)
6. IMO, life is worse than the DP
Fri Jun 28, 2019, 03:41 PM
Jun 2019

This asshole trump lover has nowhere to go EVER! He can sit and rot and I say that is worse than a quick fry.

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