Put a turban on his head and he's sent to a certain off shore prison.
A former Missouri University of Science and Technology student was sentenced Thursday to a three-year suspended sentence and five years of probation for posting online threats against black people as the University of Missouri campus was reeling from racial protests in November.
Hunter M. Park, 20, posted that he was going to kill black people on MU’s campus to the anonymous social media app Yik Yak on Nov. 10, the day after weeks of protests led UM System President Tim Wolfe to resign.
Park pleaded guilty in April to making a terroristic threat, a Class C felony that carries a maximum sentence of seven years in prison.
A suspended execution of a sentence means the felony will stay on Park’s record even if he successfully completes probation. As a convicted felon, Park will be barred from legally possessing a gun.
Traci Wilson-Kleekamp, one of the leaders of local activist group Race Matters, Friends, criticized the sentence shortly after the hearing. The group had encouraged people to write letters urging Judge Crane to impose a harsh sentence. “It pays to be white,” she said.
In February 2015, police at Missouri S&T were notified that Park had hung a Nazi flag from a second-floor balcony of his residence hall because, according to a police report, he thought his right to free speech was being violated because other students had hung an imperial Japanese flag on campus. Police did not contact Park or arrest him that day. Cont.
Story from - Columbia Daily Tribune
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