White men ordered to pay $840K after beating, running down black man in brutal 2011 Mississippi hate crime death, Four white men bedevilled for advance and active down a atramentous autoworker in a barbarous 2011 Mississippi abhorrence abomination killing were ordered to pay $840,000 to the victim's heirs.
U.S. District Adjudicator Carlton Reeves Monday ordered the men — Deryl Paul Dedmon, 23, John Aaron Rice, 23, Dylan Wade Butler, 24, and William Kirk Montgomery, 26 — to accomplish amends to the beneficiaries of James Craig Anderson.
The accumulation spotted Anderson on June 26, 2011 in the parking lot of the Metro Inn Motel in Jackson.
Anderson's afterlife came on the endure of a alternation of forays to what the accumulation alleged "Jafrica" — a aggregate of Jackson and Africa — to advance atramentous people. The men accurately targeted humans who they believed were abandoned or drunk, assertive they would be beneath acceptable to action aback or address the assaults.
Anderson, 49, appeared to be intoxicated.
Dedmon and Rice exhausted Anderson, abrogation him aching and bloodied as Butler, Montgomery and others watched.
"White power," one of the men yelled.
Some of the attackers left, but Dedmon backward behind, ambulant through the auberge parking lot in his Ford F-250 pickup.
Anderson stood, bruised on capricious legs.
Dedmon noticed the man in his headlights and swerved to bang him afore dispatch away. A auberge aegis camera recorded Anderson's final moments.
All four pleaded accusable to federal cabal and abhorrence abomination charges, and the ancient any of them is appointed to be appear in 2018. Dedmon was bedevilled to serve 50 years in prison.
The men allotment the accountability in paying Anderson's relatives, but anniversary could be appropriate to pay the accomplished bulk if others accomplish no contributions.
"The purpose of this is to accomplish the acreage of James Anderson whole," Reeves said. "I apperceive it's been a long, continued process, but I absolutely achievement the healing has amorphous and absolutely achievement the healing continues for all."
Following Anderson's death, his ancestors filed the wrongful-death accusation adjoin his attackers with the advice of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, arch of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said the money is meant to advice Anderson's family, which included a macho accomplice and a son.
"Although no bulk of money will anytime be able to annual for the accurate bulk of James Craig Anderson's life, we achievement that this amends will advice affluence the accountability on his family," Gupta said in a statement.
Defense attorneys and federal prosecutors agreed to the amount, adage that was how abundant Anderson was accepted to acquire over the blow of his life. Separate letters commissioned by prosecutors and Abby Brumley, a federal accessible apostle apery Butler, attempted to appraisal the amount. Reeves closed the reports, so it's cryptic by how abundant they differed.
Three humans bedevilled by addition adjudicator aswell face a amends hearing. Brumley said the government is acceptable to seek that they be included in the aforementioned amount.
Two added men bedevilled of assaulting added African-Americans — Joseph Paul Dominick and Jonathan Kyle Gaskamp — will not accept to pay amends because the government has never begin their victims, prosecutor Sheldon Beer told Reeves.
U.S. District Adjudicator Carlton Reeves Monday ordered the men — Deryl Paul Dedmon, 23, John Aaron Rice, 23, Dylan Wade Butler, 24, and William Kirk Montgomery, 26 — to accomplish amends to the beneficiaries of James Craig Anderson.
The accumulation spotted Anderson on June 26, 2011 in the parking lot of the Metro Inn Motel in Jackson.
Anderson's afterlife came on the endure of a alternation of forays to what the accumulation alleged "Jafrica" — a aggregate of Jackson and Africa — to advance atramentous people. The men accurately targeted humans who they believed were abandoned or drunk, assertive they would be beneath acceptable to action aback or address the assaults.
Anderson, 49, appeared to be intoxicated.
Dedmon and Rice exhausted Anderson, abrogation him aching and bloodied as Butler, Montgomery and others watched.
"White power," one of the men yelled.
Some of the attackers left, but Dedmon backward behind, ambulant through the auberge parking lot in his Ford F-250 pickup.
Anderson stood, bruised on capricious legs.
Dedmon noticed the man in his headlights and swerved to bang him afore dispatch away. A auberge aegis camera recorded Anderson's final moments.
All four pleaded accusable to federal cabal and abhorrence abomination charges, and the ancient any of them is appointed to be appear in 2018. Dedmon was bedevilled to serve 50 years in prison.
The men allotment the accountability in paying Anderson's relatives, but anniversary could be appropriate to pay the accomplished bulk if others accomplish no contributions.
"The purpose of this is to accomplish the acreage of James Anderson whole," Reeves said. "I apperceive it's been a long, continued process, but I absolutely achievement the healing has amorphous and absolutely achievement the healing continues for all."
Following Anderson's death, his ancestors filed the wrongful-death accusation adjoin his attackers with the advice of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, arch of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, said the money is meant to advice Anderson's family, which included a macho accomplice and a son.
"Although no bulk of money will anytime be able to annual for the accurate bulk of James Craig Anderson's life, we achievement that this amends will advice affluence the accountability on his family," Gupta said in a statement.
Defense attorneys and federal prosecutors agreed to the amount, adage that was how abundant Anderson was accepted to acquire over the blow of his life. Separate letters commissioned by prosecutors and Abby Brumley, a federal accessible apostle apery Butler, attempted to appraisal the amount. Reeves closed the reports, so it's cryptic by how abundant they differed.
Three humans bedevilled by addition adjudicator aswell face a amends hearing. Brumley said the government is acceptable to seek that they be included in the aforementioned amount.
Two added men bedevilled of assaulting added African-Americans — Joseph Paul Dominick and Jonathan Kyle Gaskamp — will not accept to pay amends because the government has never begin their victims, prosecutor Sheldon Beer told Reeves.
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