“A Kentucky man pleaded guilty and was sentenced last week to one year and one day in prison and one year of supervised release in the District of Eastern Louisiana for committing a federal hate crime. According to court documents, Brian Adams, 24, of Paintsville, Kentucky, transmitted a threat to a fifth-grade class at the Laureate Academy Charter School on or about Oct 14, 2020. At the time, the school was conducting class virtually over Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Specifically, Adams used racial epithets against the students and teachers and threatened to ‘hang them by a tree.’ Adams pleaded guilty to one count of transmitting threatening communications. The court found that Adams’ actions were motivated by hate,” says a Department of Justice press release that leaves out a few details found in a 2022 report by the Grio that the kids were mostly Black, Adams used the N-word repeatedly and caused them to cry as he screamed his hateful abuse, and that he posted a recording of “the Zoom-bombing” of the New Orleans elementary charter school’s virtual class… classes that were canceled for the next two days after the attack.