White supremacists may have a friend in the White House who calls them “very fine people” but they are actually having a very bad week. At least it is a bad week for two of them who participated in last summer’s Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. On Tuesday, Jacob Goodwin was found guilty of assaulting DeAndre Harris, a black man, in a parking garage. The video footage of the assault shows Goodwin and three other men beating Harris with sticks and kicking him. And on Thursday, yet another one of these “very fine” men who attacked Harris was also found guilty.
Raw Story reports:
Charlottesville’s NBC29 reported Thursday that Alex Michael Ramos was found guilty less than two days after alleged white supremacist Jacob Goodwin was found guilty in the same attack on 20-year-old DeAndre Harris. [...]
As the local NBC affiliate noted, jurors only deliberated for about 30 minutes before finding the second white supremacist guilty in the attack that, at one point, led to the victim being charged in his own assault after a white nationalist lawyer convinced a magistrate he’d been struck with Harris’ flashlight.
Thirty minutes seems like way too long but it’s a good thing the jurors made the right decision and decided to send this terrible human being to jail. The brutal attack resulted in a spinal injury and a laceration to the head which required Harris to receive 10 stitches. As noted by Raw Story, it also resulted in a nonsensical charge against Harris which was later dropped. So while the innocent victim in this case will be free to go back to his life as an educator and activist, the racist scum who are now guilty of malicious wounding will likely not anytime soon.
Three other men — Daniel Patrick Borden, Tyler Watkins Davis, and Jacob Scott Goodwin — are also facing upcoming trials in the group assault on Harris.
Ramos’ faces five to 20 years in prison for the assault in his forthcoming sentencing hearing, as does Goodwin.
Let’s hope for the maximum sentence for Ramos. And then let’s hope that juries have the good sense to convict his buddies, too. That would be very fine, indeed.