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KKK member only gets 3 years for driving into Black Lives Matter crowd

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Harry Rogers (301602)
Harry Rogers

An acknowledged member of the Ku Klux Klan was sentenced Tuesday to three years and eight months in prison on charges he drove his pickup truck through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters near Virginia’s capital city, reports the Associated Press. Harry Rogers, 37, of Hanover County, was convicted of three counts of assault and battery, one count of destruction of property and one count of failure to stop at the scene of an accident in connection with the attack last June in Henrico County near Richmond.

Rogers pleaded guilty Feb. 5 and had three felony charges and a fourth misdemeanor assault count dropped. He was originally to six years in jail in August, but he appealed that conviction. Authorities said Rogers struck at least two people after driving over a median near a Confederate monument and then through a group of protestors in a roadway. Nobody was serious injured, though officials said he ran over a man’s toe and twice hit a woman who stepped in front of the truck.

Defense attorney George Townsend argued that the protesters who were struck put themselves into the vehicle’s way. Townsend had previously said Rogers was a member of the KKK.

Before he was arrested, Rogers boasted about the incident on social media. But he changed his tune in court. He told the court on Tuesday that he was sorry for his actions, and he said he “didn’t make the right decisions that day.”

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