Feds In Indianapolis Say Hate Crimes Are Top Priority »
Posted By TimALoftis 2 weeks ago in Political News
Federal authorities who gathered today in Indianapolis to highlight efforts to crack down on hate crimes pointed to a case out of Muncie as a reason for vigilance.
On Thursday, a U.S. District Court judge sentenced three men for their involvement in a cross-burning incident in July 2008 in the yard of an African-American family in Muncie. Richard LaShure, 41, received 15 months in prison and two years on probation; his son, Richard Logue, 20, was sentenced to one year in prison and two years on probation; and Aaron Latham, 20, was sentenced to one year in prison and three years on probation.
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All three men were convicted on charges they conspired to violate civil rights and interfered with housing rights.
Thomas E. Perez, the assistant U.S. attorney general for the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, hailed a recent expansion of the federal hate-crimes law. He attended the news conference at the U.S. attorney's office in Indianapolis.
"Hate crimes are not simply about breaking bones," Perez said. "They are about breaking the spirit of the community. ... I've had that privilege, as I've said, to go into communities that have been torn apart by racial unrest, prosecuting bigots who have a cancer of the soul and want to divide our communities along racial and ethnic lines."
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