{"id":12600,"date":"2018-08-24T08:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T08:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12600"},"modified":"2018-08-24T08:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T08:24:19","slug":"two-sentenced-to-prison-for-charlottesville-attack-on-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12600","title":{"rendered":"Two sentenced to prison for Charlottesville attack on black man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"103.710379117\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Two men have been sentenced to prison for beating of a black man at a far-right rally in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/08\/charlottesville-attack-170813081045115.html\">Charlottesville<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>last year, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Jacob Scott Goodwin and Alex Ramos were sentenced to eight and six years respectively on Thursday for the beating of DeAndre Harris at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/08\/unite-white-supremacists-rally-virginia-170812142356688.html\">Unite the Right&#8217; rally<\/a><span>\u00a0last August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The confrontation took place after a friend of\u00a0Harris attempted to take a Confederate flag, widely considered a symbol of white supremacy, away from one of the marchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pictures and a video of Harris&#8217; beating by a group of white nationalists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/black-man-attacked-charlottesville-rally-charged-171013065312451.html\">were shared widely online<\/a>, leading to\u00a0attempts to identify the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>Harris, 20, suffered a spinal injury and a broken arm in the attack, which took place in a car park close to a Charlottesville police station.<\/p>\n<p>Goodwin, 23, was found guilty last May. During the trial, he claimed he beat Harris out of self-defence.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos, who is of Puerto Rican descent, said he took a &#8220;cheap shot&#8221; at Harris, but said he was not a racist and just attended the rally to support some of his friends.<\/p>\n<p>In total, four people were arrested for their involvement in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>A third man, Daniel Borden, charged for the beating of Harris, pleaded guilty last May and will hear his sentence on October 1.<\/p>\n<p>Harris himself was charged with assault and battery, but a court in Charlottesville <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/03\/charlottesville-beaten-black-man-stand-trial-friday-180315195449944.html\">found him not guilty<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p><span>Counter-protesters and anti-racist demonstrators gathered to confront those gathered for the rally, and in the ensuing violence, Heather Heyer, 31,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/08\/unite-white-supremacists-rally-virginia-170812142356688.html\">was killed<\/a><span>\u00a0when James Fields Jr allegedly drove his car through a crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been sentenced to prison for beating of a black man at a far-right rally in Charlottesville\u00a0last year, local media reported. Jacob Scott Goodwin and Alex Ramos were sentenced to eight and six years respectively on Thursday for the beating of DeAndre Harris at the\u00a0Unite the Right&#8217; rally\u00a0last August. 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