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A Florida man who pleaded guilty to a hate-motivated attack on a Muslim U.S. Postal Service carrier was sentenced Friday to three years in federal prison. Kenneth Pinkney, 47, of Fort Lauderdale, was ordered to serve 37 months behind bars followed by three years of supervised release, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement. “No one should live in fear of being targeted because of their religious beliefs,” First Assistant U.S.
At first, the woman said, she thought the man needed something and she asked if she could help, according to the complaint, which was bolstered by an affidavit from an FBI special agent. The man stopped and repeatedly said she should leave the country before tapping the back of her head with two fingers in the gesture of a gun, the complaint alleged. 'Go back to your country,' the defendant allegedly told the carrier, according to the U.S. attorney's statement on Friday.
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