Killer to Pay $175,000 for Civil Rights Violation
A white supremacist who wounded five people at a Jewish day-care center and shot a postal worker to death in 1999 was ordered to pay the murder victim’s family $175,000, a state civil rights official announced Thursday.
Buford Furrow’s attack on Joseph Ileto because of his race violated a civil rights statute intended to shield people from violence and intimidation while on the job, said an official from the state Fair Employment and Housing Commission.
Ileto was of Filipino descent. Furrow is serving a life sentence without parole.
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