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For hate crime, Ore. man ordered to write essays on racism and refugees [WashingtonPost.com]

 

In April, Jarl Rockhill placed a sticker with racist imagery — a man making a Nazi salute below the word “pure” — on the fence of the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization, a nonprofit organization in Portland, Ore.

Upon identifying Rockhill in surveillance footage, investigators determined that he was a member of a Portland neo-Nazi group, according to court documents. After he was arrested in May, the Oregonian reported, police recovered several firearms and a Nazi flag in a search of his house and car.

In late November, Rockhill, 35, pleaded guilty to a bias-crime charge, or hate crime, and received his sentence: homework.

A judge ordered that Rockhill must read a book and watch a film — “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which discusses racism in the United States, and “Myanmar’s Killing Fields,” a documentary on the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar — and write two essays of 750 and 500 words about them that a probation officer deems “genuine.”

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