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Mississippi Teen Gets Life Sentence for Killing Black Man

HeadlineMar 22, 2012

A white teenager in Mississippi has been sentenced to life in prison for killing an African-American man by running him over with a pick-up truck. Deryl Dedmon was among a group of white teens who beat James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old black auto plant worker, while yelling “white power!” and other racial epithets. Dedmon was caught on video driving a truck over Anderson, killing him instantly. Anderson was also a gay man with a same-sex partner, but it is unclear if his sexual orientation factored into the deadly attack. At his sentencing, Dedmon apologized for the murder, saying he was “young, dumb, and full of hatred.”

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