Texas man sentenced to 1 year in prison on hate crime charge

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 8:43 pm CDT, Thursday, October 25, 2018



FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A retired firefighter in Texas who left a black baby doll hanging in a noose outside his African-American neighbors' apartment has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to a federal hate crime.

Glenn Eugene Halfin was sentenced Wednesday. The 64-year-old white man pleaded guilty earlier this year to interfering with an African-American family's housing rights, which is a misdemeanor hate crime.

The Dallas Morning News reports that Halfin, of Grapevine, received the maximum sentence allowed under the law.

Prosecutors say Halfin displayed the hanged doll three times near his neighbors' apartment and noted that the family had a young daughter who saw the display.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Texas-man-sentenced-to-1-year-in-prison-on-hate-13335294.php

[Takket]

1. Lock them up!!

[EarnestPutz]

2. Does he, as a convicted felon, lose his right to vote in Texas?

Does a conviction in federal court ban him from voting after he has “paid his debt to society?”
I ask because here in Washington state this has become a cause for us on the left, people should get their voting rights back. Even those who we really disagree with.

[Sgent]

5. He's not a convicted felon

he was convicted of a misdemeanor.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Maybe making it a felony will force some to think twice

but I doubt that will happen any time soon.

[EarnestPutz]

7. On a closer reading of the article...

...I should have known that.

[oasis]

3. Short sentence.

[iluvtennis]

4. Ole hateful trumpian bastard. wish the sentence could have been longer.

[FiveGoodMen]

8. Wish the sentence had been death

We'll never win these fuckers over.

They need to go.