12/7/2022
Mississippi – Man charged with burning cross to intimidate Black neighbors, pleads guilty to hate crime.
Federal court documents show that 24-year-old Axel Charles Cox signed a plea deal Thursday after acknowledging that he violated the Fair Housing Act, which protects people from discrimination. His neighbors, whom prosecutors have not publicly identified, were renting a property near Cox.
Prosecutors wrote that Cox also made “racially derogatory remarks toward his Black neighbors.”
Cox’s attorney, Jim Davis of Gulfport, told the Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi that Cox lit the cross on fire as a reaction to his neighbors allegedly shooting and killing his dog.
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