The 24-year-old admitted to assembling a wooden cross and propping it up in his yard so his Black neighbors could see it, before dousing it in motor oil and lighting it on fire, the DOJ said.
A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges after he burned a cross on his property to intimidate a Black family, prosecutors said Friday.
On Dec. 3 2020, Axel Cox, 24, used “threatening and racially derogatory remarks” toward his neighbors, who are Black, and burned a cross in his yard to intimidate them in violation of their right to fair housing under the Fair Housing Act,. Cox, of Gulfport, Mississippi, admitted to assembling a wooden cross and propping it up in his yard so his Black neighbors could see it, before dousing it in motor oil and lighting it on fire, the U.S.
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