{"id":14062,"date":"2012-04-19T13:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T17:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14062"},"modified":"2012-04-19T13:58:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T17:58:24","slug":"3-white-supremacists-found-guilty-of-beating-black-man-at-bus-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14062","title":{"rendered":"3 White Supremacists Found Guilty Of Beating Black Man At Bus\u00a0Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Charles Cannon<\/strong>, 26, <strong>Michael McLaughlin<\/strong>, 41, and <strong>Brian Kerstetter,<\/strong> 32, were all convicted of a hate crime by a federal grand jury for assault of a 29-year-old Black man.<\/p>\n<p>The jury decided that their attack of the victim at a bus stop in downtown Houston violated the <strong>Matthew Shepard<\/strong> and <strong>James Byrd, Jr<\/strong>. Hate Crimes Prevention Act enacted in October 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Shepard<\/strong>, 22, was a gay, White man who was brutally tortured, pistol-whipped then left for dead because of his sexual orientation on October 6, 1998.<strong> James Byrd, Jr.<\/strong>, 48, was a Black man tied to a pick-up truck by three White supremacists on June 7, 1998, who then dragged him along an asphalt road until his body struck the edge of a culvert, severing his arm and head.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants in this case were identified as White supremacists by their tattoos. They were also heard screaming racial slurs as they beat their victim, according to a witness who called 911. All men face a maximum of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Cannon, 26, Michael McLaughlin, 41, and Brian Kerstetter, 32, were all convicted of a hate crime by a federal grand jury for assault of a 29-year-old Black man. The jury decided that their attack of the victim at a bus stop in downtown Houston violated the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}