A man in Washington state was convicted of a hate crime and sentenced to 30 months in prison Monday in the wake of a 2018 incident in which he threw a rock at a Black man and called him slurs.
A Kitsap County Superior Court jury convicted Robert Patrick Maykis, 49, of second-degree assault and malicious harassment along with two sentencing enhancements for using a rock as a deadly weapon, according to the Kitsap Sun.
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“This is something that injures the community and the victim and doesn’t go away,” prosecutor Ben Turner told the newspaper.
He later added: “I wanted this to be a clear message that this behavior is not going to be tolerated.”
The conviction stems from an incident from Feb. 9, 2018.
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