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(Florida) Three Klan-linked prison workers arrested over plot to kill black inmate
Source: Associated Press
Three Klan-linked prison workers arrested over plot to kill black inmate
Associated Press in Gainesville
Thursday 2 April 2015 19.12 BST
Three Ku Klux Klan members who worked at a Florida prison have been charged with plotting to kill a black inmate after his release in retaliation for a fight, officials said Thursday, in a case that marks the latest black eye for the troubled state prison system.
The three men – Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47, and 42-year-old Charles Thomas Newcomb – each were arrested Thursday on one state count of conspiracy to commit murder, Florida attorney general Pam Bondi’s office said in a written statement.
The state said the murder plotting started after Driver, an officer at the department of corrections reception and medical center in rural north Florida, had a fight with the inmate.
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Bondi’s office said the three were also members of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Associated Press in Gainesville
Thursday 2 April 2015 19.12 BST
Three Ku Klux Klan members who worked at a Florida prison have been charged with plotting to kill a black inmate after his release in retaliation for a fight, officials said Thursday, in a case that marks the latest black eye for the troubled state prison system.
The three men – Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47, and 42-year-old Charles Thomas Newcomb – each were arrested Thursday on one state count of conspiracy to commit murder, Florida attorney general Pam Bondi’s office said in a written statement.
The state said the murder plotting started after Driver, an officer at the department of corrections reception and medical center in rural north Florida, had a fight with the inmate.
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Bondi’s office said the three were also members of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/02/florida-prison-ku-klux-klan-black-inmate-plot
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