Oct 24, 2023
Suspected White Supremacist Who Tried Hitting Black Men With Truck Gets Lenient Sentence
- 11 minutes
A suspected white supremacist
gets lenient sentence.
It's what we do, folks, right?
Some crimes are worth
more ire than others.
Sixty- three year-old David Allen Emanuel,
Florida man who tried to run over
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six black men after spewing
racist slurs at the group,
sentenced to just twelve months
plus one day in federal prison.
That was on Thursday.
Reportedly, this is far less time than
what the Justice Department pursued.
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I would think you're dangerous,
try to run over six people and
hate, racism was your motivating factor.
Emanuel was sentenced on six counts of
hate crimes after attempting to run over
Marvin Dunn, his son, and
four other black men, September 6, 2022.
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Department of Justice wanted a more
substantial prison term of between five
and six years behind bars.
Emanuel still has to face a state
charge where he has been indicted on
account of aggravated assault with
a deadly weapon without intent to kill.
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Emanuel retired clam farmer Levy County,
north-central Florida,
must surrender to report prison no later
than noon, January 2nd, the judge said.
He was also ordered to serve two
years of supervised release after he
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finishes his prison term,
Fresh Take Florida with the details here.
Dunn, who is a Florida historian, and
the other black men were surveying
Dunn's Rosewood property,
scouting land to build a memorial for
the 1923 Rosewood Massacre.
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Enlightening, educating,
preserving history, marking the spot,
that's what they did to deserve this.
Rosewood massacre was a racially
motivated massacre of black people and
the destruction of a black town
that took place during the first
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week of January 1923 in rural Levy County,
Florida.
At least six black people were killed, but
eyewitness accounts suggested
a higher death toll of 27 to 150.
We'll go with that if
you know anything about
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America's dance with racism and killing.
Details of the incident, according to DOJ,
evidence during the July 26 trial,
proved that after Emanuel
found the men surveying land.
He shouted racial slurs expletives
at them, including effing n,
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telling the men to get out of these
woods before driving a pickup truck
directly at the group,
nearly striking one of them.
NewsOne filling in the color for us.
During the trial, a witness also testified
that Emanuel admitted that he came at
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those expletives and that he would have
expletive up all those black expletives.
Another witness testified that the
defendant came within inches of striking
one of the victims, and that one
victim nearly lost his life that day.
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Although sentencing seemed light for a man
charged with six counts of hate crimes,
the DOJ stressed in a press release
that there was no place for
racially motivated hate crimes in America.
NewsOne again, that's not true.
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That's not true.
What was in the press release?
There's a place, and
we've seen it too many times, haven't we?
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clark
of
the Justice Department's
Civil Rights Division said,
racially motivated hate crimes run
contrary to our values as Americans and
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simply have no place in our society today.
I like the work she's doing.
That's not true, and I apologize.
I like the work she's doing, but
I think truth at all times
is warranted in these times,
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particularly America's born on racism,
right?
We've been stewing.
It's just been brewing and
stewing in a slow crock pot
cooker of it since the beginning.
But I'll read the statement.
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This defendant violently and callously
sought to strike a group of black men
with his truck because of their race.
As we mark 100 years since
the horrific 1923 Rosewood massacre,
the justice department stands resolute
in its commitment to holding accountable
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those who commit violent, racially
motivated hate crimes in our country.
Special agent in charge Sherri E Onks
of the FBI Jacksonville field office,
also condemned the racist attack,
quoting, no one should ever fear they
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could be targeted in an act of
violence based on how they look,
where they're from, or
any part of their identity.
Hate crimes are not only an attack on
the victim, they are meant to threaten and
intimidate an entire community.
And because of their wide ranging impact,
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we will continue to work to seek justice
for victims and their communities.
In a letter submitted
last week to the judge,
Dunn asked the court to show
Emanuel mercy during sentencing,
which could have helped lead
to his lenient sentence.
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For me, my faith requires forgiveness,
and so I must, Dunn wrote.
Race is the thorn in our collective side,
the unmovable rock in our common path.
For America to become whole,
the thorns and rocks must be removed.
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The victims in this case are hopeful that
in our plea for mercy for Mr Emanuel and
his family, we're taking an important
step toward the goal of removing these
obstacles to healing.
Despite Dunn's request for leniency,
Emanuel himself expressed
little remorse for his actions.
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I didn't do a goddamn thing.
Get treated like this
over an effing n man,
I didn't do a damn thing.
Son of a B, I should have run them MF,
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noted federal prosecutors
during the trial.
There's a lot going on here, mayor.
I try to respect those who
are the focus of such a devious,
disgusting, violent act and their
decision to handle it as they see fit.
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That's over here.
I cannot see a man who we
don't know which one of
the six black people could
have lost their lives.
It sounds like all of
them were in jeopardy.
But one of them, Mr Dunn had a son there.
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Just like the old days, right?
In America,
this is what you're reduced to.
This is what you're labeled.
And I'm on the other side.
Black people who are sick of the slow
singing and flower bringing.
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The beautiful churchgoers South Carolina,
who prayed and
before they were blown away,
spoke kindness and
love and forgiveness to their murderous,
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racist attacker,
who actually consumed a burger,
a flame broiled burger afterwards.
That's America.
And if I were on the bench, I'll never be.
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I would have respected
this victim's letter,
his stance, Mr Dunn wanting forgiveness.
But to me, mayor,
forgiveness comes in different forms.
You can do the time,
let it marinate, which it sounds
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like is necessary here and
lose something more than one year or
85, 90% he'll serve mayor,
but that's just me.
I wanna hear you pontificate on this one.
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>> Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the idea
that this Mr Dunn who wrote this letter
on behalf of whoever,
thinks this is a crime against him.
I think he misunderstands where we
find ourselves in black bodies in
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these United States.
This is not a crime against him.
We heard the FBI agent who was
investigating saying the intent of this
crime is to invoke fear and terror in
everyone, ie, it's a terrorist act.
Therefore, he does not have
a say on apology solely.
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This is what I tell people who try
to tell us about protesting when
families of murdered ones say, well,
you guys shouldn't be protesting.
You don't get to name that because
this is a collective hurt.
This is a crime against all of black
humanity when it happens in this manner.
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Rosewood, the history of Rosewood
does not belong to the folk solely,
the 200 families of
people that live there.
It was about all of us.
It was about blackness,
just like this story.
And we saw that in this man's response,
effing n word this, that, and the third.
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Here's the problem with these Christians
who expose this idea of forgiveness.
There was no blind forgiveness from Jesus.
If you are a follower of Jesus,
please remember that this is
a man of different violence.
Jesus wasn't physically violent, but he
was violent, often righteous, indignation.
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He overturned the money tables when
poor people were being done wrong.
We don't do that in this country.
We're not overturning the system
that are doing poor people wrong.
He cursed, he called Peter,
and he called him Satan.
And that's the worst curse
word you can call a Christian,
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especially when it's coming from Jesus.
So he cursed the fig tree.
He cast animals.
I think people think saying,
I forgive you, and that's enough.
No, we need accountability for racism.
It is a thorn in the side, not the fact
that someone is being punished and
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you let them go unpunished.
That is childish.
That is not accountability.
That is not Christian love.
Christian love requires discipline.
Spare the rod, ruin the child.
Spare the rod, ruin the races.
>> And amen.
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And now you've given us
a historical biblical lesson,
again, it matters here.
I couldn't agree with you more.
I couldn't agree with you more why certain
people can do such horrific things,
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show no remorse, and be gifted with
something they did not earn to live,
breathe sooner, to do it all over again.
That's what will happen.
And by the way, you're right.
It is a crime against all of us
with that certain skin tone,
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not born with white privilege.
But I'll submit to people who think it's
just a black problem because we've seen
this before.
Had there been a couple of white friends
or allies with that group in the woods
that day, they would have got it too,
for loving those expletives.
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Just my thought.
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