KKK Member Sentenced for Driving Into Crowd of Protesters

This file image provided by the Henrico County, Va., Sheriff's Department shows Harry H. Rogers, an acknowledged member of the Ku Klux Klan, who drove his pickup truck through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters near Virginia's capital city. Henrico County Sheriff's Office via AP

RICHMOND, Va.—An acknowledged member of the Ku Klux Klan was sentenced Tuesday to three years and eight months in prison on charges he drove his pickup truck through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters near Virginia’s capital city.

Harry Rogers, 37, of Hanover County, was convicted of three counts of assault and battery, one count of destruction of property, and one count of failure to stop at the scene of an accident in connection with the attack last June in Henrico County near Richmond, news outlets reported.