James Fields Jr., 21, recently pled guilty to the felony of federal hate crimes for shooting a woman in a 2017 white nationalism protest rally. He faced 30 charges and pled guilty to 29 of them, 28 counts to injuring almost 40 people and 1 count of a hate crime for murdering Heather Heyer in the rally. Every 30 charges has a sentence of up to life and a $250,000 each. Fields’s attorney asks that the prosecutors do not choose the death penalty because of the death penalty which would dismiss one count of bias motive interference which was the death of Ms. Heyer. He is spending the rest of his life in prison on counts of domestic terrorism as he also plowed through the crowd with his car. He will not be sentenced to death penalty, and Ms. Heyer’s mother agrees saying it would not bring her daughter back.
This article was written on March 27, 2019 by Karen Zraick and Julia Jacobs. Before reading this article I had not known about this situation, but after reading this article I have a negative impact towards the murderer. We can really relate this to the KKK who committed white supremacy crimes against African Americans, and although the woman killed was not African American, the killer was still promoting white supremacy and its ideals. It is very sad to see that these things are happening in our country, and I will never get used to seeing these terrible news in the news. We need to stop the uptake in white supremacy in some way because it will not get any better now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/us/james-alex-fields-charlottesville.html
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