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Guest speakers chat under posters for activist organizations during a workshop for San Francisco teens learning how to become activists in their own community just before a surprise visit from former Vice President Joe Biden who later address a crowd in conjunction with his new book, at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, January 9, 2018.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Rabbi Jonathan Singer, who co-leads Congregation Emanu-El with his wife Beth, said he was disappointed with the union’s “inability to convey nuance or balance that we would expect from educators.”Emily FancherShow MoreShow Less
Des Moines woman pleads guilty to federal hate crimes charges
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Iowa woman Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, pleads guilty to mowing down black and latino kids, 12 and 14, in racist car spree
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DES MOINES, Iowa A woman charged with intentionally hitting two children with her vehicle in December 2019 because of their skin color pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to two hate crime charges.
Nicole Poole Franklin, 43, of Des Moines, Iowa, was charged after a string of incidents on Dec. 9, 2019, during which police said she hit a 12-year-old boy, who is Black, and a 14-year-old girl, who is Latina, with her car and yelled racial and ethnic slurs at a gas station employee.
Poole made her initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa on Wednesday afternoon. She was charged with two counts of violating the U.S Hate Crime Act for trying to kill both children because of their races. Poole said she has been schizophrenic as an adult and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.