Des Moines, Iowa — A white Iowa woman who said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison on federal hate crimes charges.
Another Trump supporter is in jail.
Nicole Marie Poole Franklin was arrested on Thursday for running over a teenager as she was walking on the sidewalk on her way to school on December 9 – because Franklin thought she was Mexican.https://t.co/EQU2Yx7Acb
— LiA (@LibsInAmerica) December 22, 2019
Nicole Poole Franklin had already been sentenced to up to 25 years, including a mandatory minimum of 17 1/2, on state attempted murder charges in the Dec. 9, 2019, attacks in Des Moines.
In a separate federal proceeding, U.S. District Judge Stephanie Rose sentenced Poole Franklin on Thursday to 304 months in prison, or 25 years and four months. Poole Franklin, 43, pleaded guilty to two federal hate crimes charges in May.
Nicole Poole Franklin said she drove her SUV into two children in 2019 to try to kill them because of their race. https://t.co/q8pruz3E0h
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) August 20, 2021
The sentence will run concurrently with the state punishment but ensure she will be incarcerated for longer, since the federal system does not have parole.
F*k Nicole Poole Franklin, – the 43 year old racist white woman who intentionally ran over two children, with her motor vehicle, because of their racehttps://t.co/yy5dzOU9zh
— STRICTLY FOR THE CULTURE (@alwaysSFTC) August 21, 2021
Prosecutors asked for a 27-year sentence in a filing last week, saying Poole Franklin targeted a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl because of their race and ethnicity. Both were walking down the street near their schools.
Federal sentencing guidelines had recommended a term of 30 years to life.
Prosecutors say she first drove over a curb and struck the 12-year-old Black boy, saying she ran him over because he’s “just like ISIS” and “he’s not supposed to be there and he’s going to take me out.” She narrowly missed the boy’s older sibling who was walking alongside him. Read more…
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The marginal become the proxy for the people who activate them by spreading racist vitriol.
The murderer was not in the court room, the weapon was.
If the churches want capitalism so bad, let them pay taxes and compete in the marketplace.
Lives could be saved, and the overall human condition would leap forward, if that one simple thing happened. And when they complain about being taxed, ask them if they are socialists or communists. #Taxthechurches
My ancestors endured so much evil and hatred. I can’t imagine hating someone so much because of their race that I would kill them or hurt them. We don’t want revenge, we just wanna be left alone.
That shows how easily some can be nudged into psychosis.
She was just an atypical racist; an insane one.
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