White Teen Gets Life in Gruesome Mississippi Hate Crime

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From Colorlines:

Deryl Dedmon and two other Rankin County, Miss. young men pleaded guilty Thursday to federal hate crime charges for the hit-and-run death of African-American James C. Anderson. One day after Dedmon was sentenced to two life terms in prison after pleading guilty to murder under a state hate crime law, he, and two other teens were charged and pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count of conspiracy and one count of violating the federal hate crime law, according to the Clarion Ledger.

Anderson was violently attacked and then run over by a group of white teens in June 2011. Dedmon, who was 19 at the time, was behind the wheel when prosecutors say he intentionally ran over Anderson with his Ford-250 truck because Anderson was black.

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  • KayWhitlock

    A vicious, brutal act.  Dedmon and others deserve to be held accountable.
     
    And yet this kind of racist attack will not end because of such a sentence.  I believe our society must start to get at the social and economic roots of this violence and stop pretending that it’s done only by “extremists.”  The models these guys have are found in many police forces, churches, and other “respectable” institutions that promote racist criminalizing archetypes.

  • Domino14

    Was this the story that was all over the news last year with actual video of the crime?