CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A white Arkansas man charged in the beating of a black man during a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has been found guilty of malicious wounding.
News outlets report 23-year-old Jacob Scott Goodwin was found guilty Tuesday for the August attack on 20-year-old DeAndre Harris.
The jury recommended a sentence of 10 years, with the option of suspending some time and a $20,000 fine.
Harris suffered a spinal injury, a broken arm and head lacerations that required eight staples after the parking garage assault. Three others were arrested.
Goodwin claimed self-defense. However, Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Nina-Alice Antony says it was Goodwin who wanted to square off.
The rally was held to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a city park.
It’s a start. Too little, but it’s a start.
Vicious little creep deserves every day in jail. Hope he ends up with a very large, very dark, very intimidating cellmate. Maybe he’d learn some respect…
Time for another pardon.
He’s really going to be in prison with all the brothers. The price he’ll have to pay for a) being mean and stupid and b) our “justice” policies.
Self defense against a man laying on the concrete…smh.
There are a lot of Nazi skinheads in prison. He’ll have a crew watching his back. He’ll probably be more at home than he was as a free man.