Oregon judge throws the book at a man convicted of a hate crime — ordering him to read ant-racist author Ta-Nehisi Coates.
After being convicted of committing a second-degree bias crime, he was sentenced to 50 hours of community service, and ordered to write a letter of apology to the nonprofit he targeted.Coates’ controversial bookRockhill also has to write another essay on the 2018 documentary “Myanmar’s Killing Fields” about the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, the outlet said.
Surveillance footage captured Rockhill affixing a racist sticker to a fence at the Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization in Portland.“When people are ordered to do things, sometimes they do it just because they’re ordered to,” Ramras reportedly said.The bookish sentencing came as part of a plea deal reached by Rockhill, who was found with aCops will keep the confiscated guns during the two years he is under probation, the paper said.
The group’s members “know you may never change, but they do hope you take this as a lesson: hate is not welcome here.”
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