A hate crime lays bare Hawaii’s complicated race relations
Chico Kaonohi, left, prays with Priscilla Hoʻopiʻi, center, and Lana Vierra, right, outside U.S. District Court in Honolulu, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, after his Native Hawaiian son was found guilty of a hate crime in the 2014 beating of a white man. Two Native Hawaiian men are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, March 2, 2023, for a federal hate crime in the brutal beating of a white man who tried to move into their remote, traditional fishing village. A jury convicted Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi Aki Jr. in November, finding that they were motivated by Christopher Kunzelman's race when they p…
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
Associated Press
HONOLULU — In a case that reflects Hawaii's nuanced and complicated relationship with race, two Native Hawaiian men are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for a federal hate crime in the brutal beating of a white man who tried to move into their remote, traditional fishing village....
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