A white neighbor Michael Frederick Jr. who shot at a Black family’s Michigan home, slashed tires on a vehicle and wrote racist graffiti on a truck, told a judge Monday that he did it because of a Black Lives Matter sign in the window. #MorningJoe 
Frederick said during his sentencing in Macomb County Circuit Court “I targeted these people because I didn’t like their political sign that they had in the window,” he said. “I think you guys are some great people and didn’t deserve this at all.”
Frederick pleaded guilty to 3 counts of ethnic intimidation, 2 counts of discharging a handgun at a building, felony firearm & malicious destruction of property.
Shots were fired at the Halls’ home, a swastika painted on 1 of their cars, tires slashed & front window smashed.
Shots were fired at the Halls’ home, a swastika painted on 1 of their cars, tires slashed & front window smashed.
I’m not angry, I’m not. I’m forgiving,” Candace Hall, 55, said at Frederick’s sentencing. “You’re a good kid and have a chance. You made a bad choice, and we understand that. We have children ourselves. We’re not hateful people, we’re Christians.”
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