NEW ORLEANS - A federal judge handed down three years of probation for a Mississippi man who, after the election of President Barack Obama, threatened to kill African Americans through a Facebook account, according to U.S. Attorney Jim Letten.
Dyron Hart, 20, who is black and a former student at Nicholls State University, of Popularville, Miss., was sentenced for communicating threats in interstate commerce, said Letten.
In August, “Hart created a fictitious name and used the photograph of a white supremacist to communicated a threat. He then purported to be a person outraged by the election of President Barack Obama when he used a Facebook account on a computer in Poplarville, Mississippi to transmit a threat to an African American student at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana indicating he wanted to kill African American individuals because of the election of the President,” said Letten.
Hart used the name Colton Brodoux, setting up his fake page and a photograph of a white supremacist as the avatar on the site.
Posing as a white supremacist, Hart repeatedly used obscenities and the N-word, and he threatened to kill more than 3,000 black people in a month, court documents say. He warned those who received the message of an attack from a "random white man."
Hart must perform 150 hours of community service and complete racial sensitivity course.
Hart told FBI agents that he sent the message to “get a reaction.”
