Tue Jan 31, 2023, 09:25 AM

Four White supremacists sentenced for attacking Black DJ in 2018

Source: United Press International

Four members of a White supremacist organization have been sentenced to jail on hate crime charges for assaulting a black man at a bar Lynnwood, Washington, in 2018.

The four men -- Jason DeSimas, 45; Jason Stanley, 46; Randy Smith, 42; and Daniel Dorson, 27 -- were sentenced after pleading guilty to the Dec. 8, 2018, beating of a Black man identified in court documents as T.S. who was working as a disc jockey.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/01/31/four-White-supremacists-jailed/1901675141716/

The FBI did its job here against the Hammerskins.

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Four White supremacists sentenced for attacking Black DJ in 2018 (Original post)	C0RI0LANUS	Jan 31	OP
The sentences:	lamp_shade	Jan 31	#1
Thank you for that.	C0RI0LANUS	Jan 31	#2
They "hope victims will feel that some sense of justice has been served"	msfiddlestix	Jan 31	#3
Anything more than 360 days	sab390	Jan 31	#4
So glad to see it. Between 2+ years and 4 years for each defendant.	Ilsa	Jan 31	#5
Over four years to get to actual punishment is unacceptable. Our justice system has so many delays	Lonestarblue	Jan 31	#6
There is money in writing clever loopholes into well-intentioned law.	jaxexpat	Jan 31	#7
My question is, why did it take so long to send these guys to prison?	Bev54	Jan 31	#8
like it	republianmushroom	Jan 31	#9

Response to C0RI0LANUS (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 09:29 AM

lamp_shade (14,398 posts)

1. The sentences:

"DeSimas was sentenced to 48 months' imprisonment, Stanley to 47 months and nine days, Smith to 42 months and Dorson to 28 months."

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Response to lamp_shade (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 09:43 AM

C0RI0LANUS (500 posts)

2. Thank you for that.

Justice for that poor guy. But I wonder why the USG had to prosecute them for a civil rights crime rather than Washington State on charges of assault and attempted murder?

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Tue Jan 31, 2023, 10:19 AM

msfiddlestix (6,317 posts)

3. They "hope victims will feel that some sense of justice has been served"

Prosecutors know the light sentences do not offer a sense of justice being adequately served.

Article doesn't say where they're serving their sentence. County Jail is not the same as Prison. Easier to break out of, easier to form alliances with employees guards etc, easier for early release.

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Response to msfiddlestix (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 10:49 AM

sab390 (136 posts)

4. Anything more than 360 days

is prison.

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Response to C0RI0LANUS (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 10:55 AM

Ilsa (60,894 posts)

5. So glad to see it. Between 2+ years and 4 years for each defendant.

Sad that it took 4 years to bring them to justice, but good to see it done.

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Response to C0RI0LANUS (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 11:16 AM

Lonestarblue (7,387 posts)

6. Over four years to get to actual punishment is unacceptable. Our justice system has so many delays

that one could die before seeing any justice. Either we have too few judges or we have allowed too many loopholes for appeal after appeal after appeal, as Trump uses to delay.

It’s interesting that the prison sentences are harsher for attacking a person than most of those for attacking the US Capitol to overturn the federal government. With the exception of a top few, most of those sentences were a slap on the wrist.

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Response to Lonestarblue (Reply #6)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 12:04 PM

jaxexpat (5,198 posts)