Racist James Alex Fields, who rammed his car into a group of anti-Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville, VA in 2017 killing Heather Heyer, was sentenced today to life in prison on 29 of 30 Federal felony hate crime charges. Fields was in Charlottesville as part of a "Unite the Right" rally in August, 2017. Here's a little more about Fields:
"Prosecutors have said that Fields intended to kill more people in the cluster of counterprotesters and had a history of racist and anti-Semitic behavior.Fields still faces sentencing on state charges, including first degree murder, which the jury recommended that he serve life in prison plus 419 years. He will be sentenced on the state charges on July 15.
Gasps could be heard Friday among a packed courtroom, which included Heyer's mother, when prosecutors told the judge that a classmate of Fields had testified that during a high school trip to a German concentration camp, Fields had remarked: 'This is where the magic happened.'
Prosecutors said they were told Fields was "'like a kid at Disney World"'during that trip. They had earlier said that Fields had revered Adolf Hitler, keeping a picture of him next to his bed." (our emphasis)
Demagogue and neo-fascist Donald "Not Exonerated" Trump infamously called the neo-Nazi marchers in Charlottesville "very fine people" after he attacked the counter-demonstrators. Today, one of those "very fine people" got justice.
(photo: Trump's base marches in Charlottesville in August, 2017)
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Not a supporter of the death penalty, so life in prison is what I hoped for as his sentence. Let him serve as a lesson to those who believe white supremecy is acceptable.
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