2 Native Hawaiian Men Sentenced In Hate Crime Against White Neighbor
HONOLULU (AP) — Two Native Hawaiian men wouldn’t have brutally beat a man if he wasn’t white, a federal judge said Thursday in sentencing them to yearslong prison terms for a hate crime in a case t

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