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Is this too harsh? Georgia couple receive long sentences for verbal hate crime
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:19 pm
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A young Georgia couple cried in court as they were sentence to a total of 28 years in prison on Monday for committing a hate crime at a young child's birthday party.
Kayla Rae Norton, 25, and Jose Ismael Torres, 26, drove with a caravan of trucks waving confederate flags and antagonizing a Douglasville, Georgia family as they celebrated a boy's eighth birthday party in 2015.
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Superior Court Judge William McClain delivered Torres a sentence to 20 years, with 13 served in prison, and Norton was given 15 years with six to serve in prison.
Upon their release, the two have been barred from Douglas County. After interrupting the party they also terrorized a nearby Wal-Mart and convenience store.
The couple were members of a group called 'Respect the Flag,' and were joined by a caravan of other people who shouted at adults and children that they would 'kill y'all n*****s,' while proudly displaying confederate flags.
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Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:21 pm to RollTide1987
Something is missing here.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:22 pm to RollTide1987
White trash gonna white trash.
That's why I don't mind the Confederate flag, it lets me know people and places to avoid.
That's why I don't mind the Confederate flag, it lets me know people and places to avoid.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:22 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Something is missing here.
Probably a few chromosomes between them.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:23 pm to RollTide1987
Huh?
You get 5 years for murdering someone in a car while drunk.
This can't be the whole story unless - it took place in France or this is 1984.
You get 5 years for murdering someone in a car while drunk.
This can't be the whole story unless - it took place in France or this is 1984.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:24 pm to RollTide1987
28 years for waving a flag and being a retard?
I'm in agreement... There has to be more to this than the flag.
I'm in agreement... There has to be more to this than the flag.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:25 pm to RollTide1987
That's crazy. You would get less for molesting a kid. The story, as related in the Daily Mail, is bizarre.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:26 pm to tiggerthetooth
quote:
Something is missing here
Most definitely. No way they got that kind of time for hollering out the window.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:27 pm to northshorebamaman
Habitual offenders
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:28 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
quote:We are France
This can't be the whole story unless - it took place in France
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:28 pm to RollTide1987
Hopefully the sentences get lowered on appeal, but I am glad a message was sent.
ETA: never mind, just saw the shotgun part. That's assault, brotha. And a few weeks after Dylan Roof? frick off.
ETA: never mind, just saw the shotgun part. That's assault, brotha. And a few weeks after Dylan Roof? frick off.
This post was edited on 2/27/17 at 6:30 pm
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:28 pm to RollTide1987
Local Story
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26-year-old Jose Ismael Torres will spend 13 years in prison; 25-year-old Kayla Rae Norton is to serve six years.
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slurs and threatening to kill partygoers, even the kids. Prosecutors said Torres pointed a shotgun at the party.
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Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:29 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Something is missing here.
Chromosomes.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:29 pm to the808bass
I know. I read the whole thing and I couldn't find anything justifying the long prison sentences. What did they do at Wal-Mart that was described by the article as "terrorizing"? Did they launch racial epithets there as well or did they cause actual physical harm?
Based on the article alone, this judge went way overboard with the sentencing. He's affectively ruined their lives over something that should just give you a fine and community service.
Based on the article alone, this judge went way overboard with the sentencing. He's affectively ruined their lives over something that should just give you a fine and community service.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:29 pm to buckeye_vol
Okay. That makes more sense.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:30 pm to RollTide1987
This seems excessive given that rapists and murderers get less time.
Shitty and trashy but sentences seem extreme.
Shitty and trashy but sentences seem extreme.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:31 pm to buckeye_vol
quote:WHITE HISPAINC
Jose Ismael Torres
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:36 pm to RollTide1987
Why is someone named Torres waving Confederate flags anyway 
Seems very extreme however.
Seems very extreme however.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:42 pm to idlewatcher
quote:Hispanics in the Confederacy
Why is someone named Torres waving Confederate flags anyway
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"Tejanos" (As the Mexican Americans from Texas are called) had been among the first to take up arms for the Confederacy and were among the last to surrender.
Learn something new every day.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 6:43 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Something is missing here.
Jose Torres is an unusal name for a NeoConfederate
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