2 Men Sent to Prison in Civil Rights Violation
From Times Wire Reports
Two men convicted of trying to drive a black family out of the predominantly white community of Nine Mile, burning a cross in the family’s yard and hanging a noose on the door, were sentenced in Jacksonville to nearly two years in federal prison.
Jeremy Kratzer, 25, and Ricky Hobbs, 23, earlier were found guilty of conspiring to violate the civil rights of Deborah Edwards and her four children.
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