Tag: Cross Burning Hoax
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Final defendant in cross-burning ‘hoax’ given lengthy sentence for hate crime
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DENVER — The final defendant involved in the cross-burning “hoax” that rocked the Colorado Springs community during the 2023 mayoral runoff election was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison on Wednesday. Derrick Bernard, 36, and two others were found guilty of burning a cross and writing a racial expletive on one of Colorado…





