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l A Nov. 21 A-section article
about Afghan evacuees awaiting
resettlement incorrectly said
that Afghan “humanitarian
parolees” do not have access to
the full host of benefits and
services offered to refugees.
While that was true for the first
month following the evacuation,
Congress in late September
passed legislation to make
Afghan evacuees eligible for the
same assistance provided to
refugees.l In some Nov. 20 editions, a
Sports article about the Virginia
Class 5 high school volleyball
championship transposed
comments made by Stone Bridge
players Trisha Guevara and Lilah
Stevens. It was Guevara , not
Stevens, who said: “It’s a really
fun thing.... We’ve improved so
much since August. It’s all how
they’re working together and
coming together.” And Stevens,
not Guevara , said: “We have a
really good defense, and our
coach always says that defense
wins state champions, so we
went out and did that.”l A N ov. 19 A-section article
about the Defense Department
inspector general ’s investigation
of the military response to
violence at the U.S. Capitol on
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FLORIDAJudge exonerates
the ‘Groveland Four’A judge on Monday officially
exonerated four young African
American men of the false
accusation that they raped a
White woman seven decades ago,
making partial and belated
amends for one of the greatest
miscarriages of justice of
Florida’s Jim Crow era.
At the request of the local
prosecutor, Administrative
Judge Heidi Davis dismissed the
indictments of Ernest Thomas
and Samuel Shepherd, who werefatally shot by law enforcement,
and set aside the convictions and
sentences of Charles Greenlee
and Walter Irvin. The men
known as the “Groveland Four,”
who ranged in age from 16 to 26
at the time, were accused of
raping a woman in the central
Florida town of Groveland in
1949.
“We followed the evidence to
see where it led us, and it led us
to this moment,” Bill Gladson,
the local state attorney, said after
the hearing in the same Lake
County courthouse where the
original trials were held.
The men’s families expressed
hope that the case would spark a
reexamination of other
convictions of Black men and
women from the Jim Crow era so
those wrongly convicted can
have their names cleared.
“I hope that this is a start,
because lot of people didn’t get
this opportunity,” said Aaron
Newson, Thomas’s nephew.
Thomas was killed by a posse
that shot him more than 400
times shortly after the rape
accusation. The local sheriff,
Willis McCall, fatally shot
Shepherd and wounded Irvin in
1951 as he drove them to a second
trial after the U.S. SupremeCourt overturned their original
convictions, saying no evidence
had been presented. The sheriff
claimed the men tried to escape,
but Irvin said McCall and his
deputy shot them in cold blood.
Thurgood Marshall, then with
the NAACP, represented Irvin
during his second trial, but an
all-White jury again convicted
him, and he was sentenced to
death. Irvin narrowly escaped
execution in 1954, and Gov.
LeRoy Collins commuted his
sentence to life with parole.
Greenlee, also sentenced to life,
was paroled in 1962 and died in- Irvin died in 1969, one year
after he was paroled.
— Associated Press
GEORGIA
Regents will not
change building namesThe University System of
Georgia’s governing board on
Monday rejected the
recommendation of an advisory
group to rename 75 buildings and
colleges on campuses across the
state that honor individuals who
supported slavery, racial
segregation and other forms of
oppression.Among the buildings at issue
are more than two dozen at the
flagship University of Georgia in
Athens. Aderhold Hall, according
to the advisory group’s report, is
named for a 20th-century
president of the university, Omer
Clyde “O.C.” Aderhold, who was a
“committed segregationist.”
Those and other buildings
were recommended to be
renamed in a report from the
Naming Advisory Group, which
was formed in June 2020, shortly
after the murder of George Floyd
in Minneapolis. The group was
chaired by Marion Ross Fedrick,
president of Albany State
University, a h istorically Black
university in the Georgia system.
The system’s Board of Regents,
whose members were appointed
by Gov. Brian Kemp (R) or his
GOP predecessors, asserted it
would not pursue any of the
recommended name changes.
“We acknowledge, understand
and respect there are many
viewpoints on this matter,” it
said in a statement. “Going
forward, the Board is committed
to naming actions that reflect
the strength and energy of
Georgia’s diversity.”
— Nick Anderson
and Susan SvrlugaDIGEST
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Narragansett turkeys are corraled at a f arm in Ellensburg, Wash., on Saturday. The American Farm Bureau
Federation estimates the average cost of a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 is $53.31, up 14 percent from last year.BY SHAYNA JACOBS
new york — A s upporter of
former president Donald Trump
was sentenced to 19 months in
prison for threatening to
“slaughter” members of Con-
gress days after the Jan. 6 breach
of the U.S. Capitol — a threat that
tested the limits of free speech in
an era of contentious political
division.
Brendan Hunt, 37, still doesn ’t
recognize the severity of the
violent rhetoric in the 88-second
message he posted online 12 days
before Joe Biden’s inauguration,
said the judge who sentenced
him Monday in federal court in
Brooklyn.
“We cherish free speech in this
country but we also cherish our
form of government,” said U.S.
District J udge Pamela Chen, who
rejected Hunt’s bid to limit his
sentence to the 10 months he has
already been held.
Hunt did not go to Washing-
ton on Jan. 6, when a mob of
Trump supporters attacked po-
lice and forced their way into the
Capitol to try to disrupt the
certi fication of Biden’s presiden-
tial victory.
But he po sted a v ideo to the
online site BitChute on Jan. 8
citing Trump’s false claims that
the election was tainted and
saying Trump’s followers should
“take up arms” and head to
Washington to kill lawmakers he
thought were traitors for con-
firming the Biden win.
“[W]e need to go back to the
U.S. Capitol when all of the
Senators and a lot of the Repre-
sentatives are back there and
this time we have to show up
with our guns and we need to
slaughter” them, he said in the
video.
H unt was arrested the day
before Biden’s inauguration, and
a ju ry convicted him of making
death threats against members
of Congress in late April.
D uring the four-hour sentenc-
ing hearing on Monday, Chen
said Hunt seems more concerned
about his own situation than thepotential danger h e created for
others.
She said he has a tendency to
“portray himself as a victim,”
with a “very defiant personality”
that has revealed itself to jail
staff at the Metropolitan Deten-
tion Center in Brooklyn.
“Though I think he’s express-
ing remorse now, it fe els very
much to me that he feels much
worse for himself and his family
than he does for anybody else,”
the judge said, adding that she
was imposing additional jail
time both because Hunt’s crime
was “ser ious and for the purpos-
es of general deterrence.”
“Mr. Hunt, you are going to
have to grow up and reflect on
your actions,” she said.
Hunt, of Queens, is the son of a
retired family court judge and
was working as a N ew York state
courts employee at the time of
his arrest.
Evidence presented at trial
portrayed him as an embittered
homebody who was obsessed
with Nazi Germany and white
supremacist concepts and grew
increasingly fixated on a right-
wing agenda and conspiracy the-ories about the 2020 election
results.
He began posti ng online
threats to elected officials in-
cluding Sen. Charles E. Schumer
(D-N .Y.), then the minority lead-
er, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) around
the time of the election.
During his trial, the jury delib-
erated for less than half a day
before convicting Hunt on a
single count of threatening
members of Congress and find-
ing him not guilty of charges
related to posts he made before
Jan. 6.
When given the chance to
speak on Thursday, Hunt apolo-
gized for his actions. But he also
insulted the Justice Department
and complained about its refer-
ences to his interest in Adolf
Hitler.
“The government’s claim that
I was motivated to make this
video because I'm some kind of
neo-Nazi white supremacist is
just an ugly, untrue and unfair
lie,” he said, reading from a
prepared statement at the de-
fense table. “Associating some-one with Nazis is a standard of
evil which lazy rhetoric resorts to
when it’s groping for negatives.”
Prosecutors sought as much as
five years in prison for Hunt,
citing examples of hostile behav-
ior presented at trial, including
when he threatened to stab his
cousin’s infant because the rela-
tive stopped following him on
Facebook.
“He continues to lack self-
awareness and his judgment re-
mains impaired because he does
not believe what he did was
wrong,” Assistant U.S. Attorney
Ian Richardson said.
One of Hunt’s attorneys, Jan
Rostel, compared Hunt’s pros-
ecution to the nation’s war on
drugs, which is being reexam-
ined for whether the mass incar-
ceration it resulted in was a
benefit to society.
She called Hunt’s case part of a
“war on discourse,” suggesting
the Justice Department’s pursuit
of her client impinged on the
right to free speech enshrined in
the First Amendment.
Hunt had faced a maximum
penalty of 10 years in prison.
[email protected]Man gets 19 months for threatening lawmakers
BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST
Supporters of President Donald Trump storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. Brendan Hunt was not there, but
he posted a video Jan. 8 citing false election claims and urging people to “ take up arms” and go to D.C.Judge says he has
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