According to the feds, Axel Cox said he built the cross to intimidate his Black neighbors and force them to move out of the neighborhood.
for burning a cross in the front yard of a Black family in the early morning hours, according to the Department of Justice. The family had participated in a civil rights protest the day before in Marion, Virginia, the feds said.the home of a Black family in the prosperous, majority white California coastal community of Arroyo Grande near San Luis Obispo.
Cox's prison term will be followed by three years of supervised release and he has to pay restitution in the amount of $7,810, according to the Department of Justice. "No one should endure such hatred and intimidation because of the color of his skin," said U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca for the Southern District of Mississippi in a Department of Justice statement."This defendant has been held accountable. His sentence should permeate among his kind and declare that Mississippi and the Department of Justice will not tolerate this hateful behavior.
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