Three white men have been sentenced to prison for the 2011 murder of an African-American man in Jackson, Mississippi. The three and other friends beat James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old black auto plant worker, while yelling “white power!” and other racial epithets. Surveillance footage then shows one of the individuals’ truck driving 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. On Wednesday, Deryl Paul Dedmon received 50 years in prison; John Aaron Rice, 18-and-a-half years; and Dylan Wade Butler, seven years. All were convicted of the commission of a hate crime.
