Massachusetts Driver Who Repeatedly Hit Asian American Man Gets 18 Months in Prison

Massachusetts Driver Who Repeatedly Hit Asian American Man Gets 18 Months in Prison
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The Associated Press
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BOSTON—A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening to kill a group of Asian Americans and repeatedly hitting one of them with his car.

John Sullivan, a white man in his late 70s, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in April to a federal hate crime, specifically charges of willfully causing bodily injury to a victim through the use of a dangerous weapon because of his actual and perceived race and national origin.