Couple weep as judge gives them 28 years in prison (party)
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They were a group protesting the assault on their southern heritage...
I didn't know driving through predominantly black neighborhoods flying the flag of those who wanted to keep black people as property was an integral part of "southern heritage", but if you say so...
How about the yelling of slurs at black motorists? Still southern heritage? The heroic storming of the bouncy castle at a kid's birthday party? Heritage?
I'm not an expert, but if you want to claim there's anything worth preserving in this southern heritage of yours, you might look into getting some other champions, because these guys don't seem to embody anything worth taking pride in.
They deserve every day of it. I imagine that they will do their time in Protective custody for obvious reasons.
Go ahead say what the OBVIOUS reasons are....I know exactly what you mean. I have a cousin who JUST got released from prison in Georgia,I had an ex step father who served 2 stints in prison so I know all about it.
Wow! I hate what this couple did and believe they should pay a price, by the way it was 13 and 6 years, not 35, but this is still not Justice.
There are other links to this that break the time down better. It is 35 years if you include probation:
Superior Court Judge William McClain delivered Torres a sentence to 20 years, with 13 served in prison, and Norton was given 15 years with six to serve in prison, the AJC reported.
There was interview after the altercation from one of the drivers that paints a very different picture:
We're being publicized as the KKK and that's not us,” said Levi Bush, who identified himself as a driver of one of the pickup trucks. Bush told Belanger the group was driving around conducting a fundraiser and the reason they stopped on the grass near the birthday party was because he got a flat tire. Bush said people at the predominately-black birthday party approached his group in a hostile manner and that’s when the situation escalated. "Do you think this was a giant misunderstanding?” Belanger asked. “I think it could have been because we had black people with us in our caravan and Mexican people with us," Bush said. “Officers on scene were given conflicting statements as to what led up to the confrontation,” the police department’s statement said.
I live the the rule to avoid unnecessary conflicts because you never know what might happen. This could have been being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Tempers flared and now they are paying a big price.
Torres, who had retrieved a shotgun from his vehicle, pointed his shotgun at the group of African American party-goers and stated he was going to kill them while his co-defendants stated that 'the little ones can get one too,' referring to the young children at the party
bold is the main reason why they got what they got. Criminal Threats
I didn't know driving through predominantly black neighborhoods flying the flag of those who wanted to keep black people as property was an integral part of "southern heritage", but if you say so...
How about the yelling of slurs at black motorists? Still southern heritage? The heroic storming of the bouncy castle at a kid's birthday party? Heritage?
I'm not an expert, but if you want to claim there's anything worth preserving in this southern heritage of yours, you might look into getting some other champions, because these guys don't seem to embody anything worth taking pride in.
I suspect they are about to experience a whole new kind of "southern heritage" in the Georgia prison system. I hope they enjoy it!
Well now they're going to get a 13 and 6 year timeout. They had it coming I feel no sympathy or pity for them. For those that hide behind the first amendment to spread racial hate you're disgusting.
Read the story, terrorized birthday party with shotgun and at walmart.
Threatened to kill kids etc.
35 years? Maybe 5-10 would have been fine.
Lets not confuse "crimes" with "hate crimes" the hate crime has become the standard over use of jail time.
Many people kill white and black people in chicago everyday and a few racists run around being idiots some how get a story here.
I would love to know how many KKK groups are killing people these days.
More black people are killing each other everyday then the KKK or these type of people.
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