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A white Iowa woman who admitted she ran over and tried to kill two children of color with her car because of their race was sentenced in federal court to 25 years in prison.
Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, pleaded guilty in April to federal hate crime charges for attempting to kill a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl in December 2019.
The Department of Justice said she targeted the minors “because of their race and national origin.” The boy is Black and the girl is Hispanic.
Poole Franklin’s public defender said via email on Friday that he could not comment on the case.
According to prosecutors, Poole Franklin was driving her Jeep Grand Cherokee in Des Moines on Dec. 9, 2019, when she saw the 12-year-old walking on the sidewalk with his sibling, also a minor.
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