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Woman Who Drove SUV Into 2 Children Due to Their Race Given 25 Years By Federal Judge
Rebecca Klapper 13 hrs ago
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 to 25 years in prison by a federal judge on hate crimes charges, the Associated Press reported.
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Prosecutors said Poole Franklin targeted a 12-year-old Black boy and a 14-year-old Latina girl on December 9, 2019, in Des Moines due to their race.
Poole Franklin pleaded guilty to two federal hate crime charges in May.
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Prosecutors said she first drove over a curb and struck the 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.
Minutes later, Poole Franklin drove up over a sidewalk, prosecutors said, striking the girl, who had bruises, cuts and a concussion. Poole Franklin said she targeted the girl because she thought she was Mexican, was taking over "our homes and our jobs" and "wasn't supposed to be in the country," the filing said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/woman-who-drove-suv-into-2-children-due-to-their-race-given-25-years-by-federal-judge/ar-AANvTrw?ocid=msedgntp
bluedevil4
(305 posts)happened to a nicer person
Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)Chuuku Davis
(565 posts).
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Maine Abu El Banat
(3,479 posts)Republican talking points to me.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Celerity
(43,340 posts)Celerity
(43,340 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,854 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,703 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)Too many people like her are walking among us.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,089 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(5,126 posts)For sub-humans like this... Hammurabi had it right.
Auggie
(31,167 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...Those two kids lives have been forever changed by this evil woman, and not in a good way.
hlthe2b
(102,236 posts)From NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/us/Iowa-woman-hate-racism-attack.html
Then, Ms. Poole Franklin drove away.
Less than an hour later in the city of Clive, just west of Des Moines, Ms. Poole Franklin was driving near a junior high school. There, she saw a 14-year-old girl walking on the sidewalk who she believed to be Mexican. She drove her Jeep over the curb, over the sidewalk and struck the child, according to the plea agreement and law enforcement officials. The girl suffered pain, cuts, bruising, swelling and a concussion.
The state of "journalism" today.... Sigh
OneBro
(1,159 posts)The public defender summed it up well, arguing that she was suffering from "severe pre-existing mental illnesses that were exacerbated by methamphetamine use, numerous extremely difficult life events hitting at nearly the same time, and with some of the worst aspects of the culture acting behind the scenes and further poisoning her mental state."
Our societys failure to address her mental illness left her vulnerable to radicalization by the right-wing hate machine.
GPV
(72,377 posts)stopdiggin
(11,302 posts)a virulent flat out racist - willing to act out on her hatreds and vile beliefs.
(I have no doubt there is some level of 'illness' here - but let's not forget to point out that it is piled on top of - a very, very toxic stew personal beliefs - that are not at all hallmarks of mental illness.)
Several attempts at murder, including children...I guess it's time to buy a gun
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)whether they are murdering whites or children of color.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)A sentiment consistently applied to one and only one demographic in these instances, while simultaneous denied to all other demographics who engage in the same.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)a piece of racist trash by blaming it on "mental illness ".
Some people are just low quality garbage, from day one.
johnthewoodworker
(694 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)but justice saddens me. Murderers can get less or similar, and insurrectionists are paying $500 fines!
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)On the inside. She should count on special sauce in her food at a minimum.
gordianot
(15,237 posts)She will have to watch her back. Her life of anticipation will be comparable to Derrick Chauvin even under the control of Federal authorities.
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)Bet she gets out in far less than 20.
If we released all the people sentenced for minor drug offenses, we have room in our prison systems to keep people like her in there longer.
Sympthsical
(9,073 posts)Recently, there was a road rage incident in the Oakland Hills. After an argument, a 19 year old driver circled round several times trying to buzz and clip the people he had been arguing with and their car. On his last pass, he aimed and clipped a guy. Broke his tail bone I believe.
Alameda County slapped him with an attempted murder charge amongst the other vehicular stuff.
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,281 posts)Wonder if that trial has happened, with a conviction... or is too recent?
Sympthsical
(9,073 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,281 posts)Demovictory9
(32,454 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,281 posts)thanks again.
Atreus
(23 posts)long enough!
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,406 posts)No possibility for parole.
Nobody was hurt.
My friend DID NOT commit the crime in the first place
He was exonerated and released after serving nearly eight years.
White justice....Black justice
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/magazine/yutico-briley.html#commentsContainer
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/08/1014200241/freeing-an-innocent-man-from-prison
cyndensco
(1,697 posts)Imagine if it had been the other way.....
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)malaise
(268,969 posts)Rot in prison you piece of shit
msfiddlestix
(7,281 posts)prodigitalson
(2,410 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,281 posts)Prosecutors asked for a 27-year sentence in a filing last week, saying Poole Franklin targeted the children 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.
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Poole Franklin's public defender asked Rose for nothing longer than a 27-year term. He argued in a filing that she was suffering from "severe pre-existing mental illnesses that were exacerbated by methamphetamine use, numerous extremely difficult life events hitting at nearly the same time, and with some of the worst aspects of the culture acting behind the scenes and further poisoning her mental state."
Before the hate crimes, Poole Franklin had received a series of breaks from the legal system, including after she allegedly stabbed a boyfriend in the chest in 2017 and threatened another with a butcher's knife months later.
SYFROYH
(34,169 posts)Unless she continues on her racist quest to kill brown-skinned people in prison.
Then she'll die in prison.
prodigitalson
(2,410 posts)Hassler
(3,377 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,060 posts)She is a mainstream Republican.