African-American Facebook User Pleads Guilty to Impersonating a White Supremacist, Making Death Threats against an African-American university Student

UPDATE: Read the entire DOJ report, HERE.

CNN is reporting on a statement by the U.S. Department of Justice:

Dyron L. Hart [alias: Colton Brodoux], 20, of Poplarville, Mississippi, pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt to one count of communicating threats in interstate commerce…Hart admitted creating the fictitious account in November, pretending to be a white supremacist outraged by the election of Barack Obama as the nation’s first African-American president…He then transmitted a death threat via Facebook to an African-American student at Nicholls State University in Louisiana, saying he wanted to kill African-Americans because of Obama’s election.

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…Hart will face a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced November…

 

Hat-Tip Lag O’Morph via @brooksbane