(Black) Man Admits Posing As White Supremacist
An African-American man from Mississippi admits posing as a whitesupremacist to send a death threat across state lines by Facebook.TheU.S. Attorney’s Office says 20-year-old Dyron L. Hart of Poplarvillepleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a threat inNovember 2008.
Hart admitted creating a name and using a whitesupremacist’s photo to pose as a white man who planned to kill blacksbecause Barack Obama had been elected president.
He originallywas charged with threatening three black students at Nicholls State -where he had attended one semester – but pleaded guilty Wednesday toone count.He sent the threats from a computer in Poplarville.The maximum sentence is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine; sentencing is Nov. 18.