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Mississippi Man Sentenced for Federal Hate Crime for Cross Burning | OPA | Department of Justice

A Mississippi man was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Halil S. Ozerden to 42 months* in prison followed by three years supervised release and restitution in the amount of $7,810 for burning a cross in his front yard with the intent to intimidate a Black family.

According to court documents, in Gulfport, Mississippi, on Dec. 3, 2020, Axel Cox, 24, violated the Fair Housing Act when he used threatening and racially derogatory language toward his Black neighbors and burned a cross to intimidate them. After a dispute with the Black family victims, Cox wedged two pieces of wood together to form a cross, placed it in clear view of the victims’ residence, doused it in oil and set it alight. During this incident, Cox yelled threats and racial slurs toward the occupants of the house. Cox admitted that he lit the cross on fire because the victims were Black and that he intended to scare them into moving out of the neighborhood.

 

Source: Mississippi Man Sentenced for Federal Hate Crime for Cross Burning | OPA | Department of Justice

Detainees with disabilities in ‘spiral of hopelessness’ after cancelled United Nations visit to Australia – ABC News

Advocates are concerned people with disability in detention settings across Australia have been forgotten following the cancelled visit of an international torture prevention group.
— Read on www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-10/cancelled-un-detention-visit-disability-prisoners/102068996

FL Law Would Empower Christians To Sue Writers Over Homophobia Accusations | by James Finn | Prism & Pen | Mar, 2023 | Medium

Warning: this story contains a homophobic and a transphobic slur that some readers will find upsetting. I published a story Tuesday about a Florida Senate bill (SB 254) that would, if passed, strip…
— Read on medium.com/prismnpen/fl-law-would-empower-christians-to-sue-writers-over-homophobia-accusations-7cbdd3805f4b

Republicans block meningitis, chickenpox vaccine mandates (Wisconsin) – Los Angeles Times )(GOP death and disease cult infects public health – hard to believe fake-ideology matters more to GOP than public health!!!)

The Legislature’s GOP-controlled rules committee voted 6-4 to block the proposal. All six of the panel’s Republican members voted to stop the policy. The vote comes two days after a lengthy public hearing on the policy changes that saw parents complain that the new requirements trample their liberties. The committee blocked the proposal during the last legislative session as well.

“[The rules committee], once again, met its oversight duty relating to the improper actions taken by [the Department of Health Services] to enact binding administrative code provisions that were arbitrary and capricious, as well as, placing undue hardships on the families of this state,” Sen. Steve Nass, a committee co-chair, said in a statement. He said the committee’s action “restores the reasonable right of parents to make immunization decisions for their children.”

 

Source: Republicans block meningitis, chickenpox vaccine mandates – Los Angeles Times