Florida 'antifa hunter' sentenced to three years after threatening Black political candidate...

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Florida 'antifa hunter' sentenced to three years after threatening Black political candidate, activist

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-antifa-hunter-sentenced-three-years-after-threatening-black-political-n1238943

A Florida man who called himself the “antifa hunter” was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for carrying out a racist social media campaign against a Black political candidate and threatening to sexually assault the autistic daughter of an anti-racist activist, federal authorities said.

Daniel McMahon, 32, of Pasco County, was sentenced in federal district court in Virginia, where the candidate who McMahon admitted to threatening had announced his run for office in Charlottesville last year, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.

In court documents filed this year, prosecutors said McMahon began threatening the candidate, who is not identified, after gathering personal information on people who he believed protested the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

Civil rights activist Heather Heyer was killed during the white nationalist rally. James Alex Fields was convicted of her murder in 2018 and pleaded guilty last year to 29 hate crime charges in connection with her death.

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