Klan group pays $2.5 million to teen
A white supremacist Ku Klux Klan group was ordered to pay $2.5 million in damages to a 16-year-old boy who they mistakenly thought was an illegal Latino immigrant.
The teen was severely beaten in 2006 and the Klansmen served two years in prison.
Friday, an all-white jury found that the Imperial Klans of America and its founder wrongfully targeted Jordan Gruver.
The Southern Poverty Law Center represented Gruver and says that they plan to seize the grand wizard’s, Ron Edwards, property that serves as Klan headquarters.
The International Herald Tribune reports that Edwards plans to appeal the verdict.
CNN reports that the 2006 attack happened at the Meade County Fair in Brandenberg, Kentucky while the Klan was on a recruiting mission.