Florida man sentenced to 1 year in federal prison for trying to run over 6 Black men

Marvin Dunn, one of the victims, asked the judge on behalf of the other victims requesting mercy be shown to David Emanuel, not solely for him and his family, but to move on as a country.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 62-year-old white man convicted of attempting to run down six Black men at the site of the Rosewood massacre has been sentenced to a single year in prison.

David Allen Emanuel appeared solemn and reserved on Thursday as federal Judge Allen Winsor delivered the sentence on six counts of hate crimes for attempting to run over Historian Marvin Dunn, his son and four other Black men who were surveying Dunn’s Rosewood property to build a memorial for the massacre.

The judge’s sentence called for 12 months plus one day in federal prison for each of the six charges, which he allowed to run concurrently. The Justice Department had  today!

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