Two Kentucky men charged with federal hate crime in a beating attack on a gay man in an Appalachian park reports Jordan Palmer with Kentucky Equality Federation. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Two Kentucky men have been charged with a federal hate crime in a beating attack on a gay man in an Appalachian park, marking the […]
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Kerry Harvey and Jordan Palmer announced a federal grand jury in London, Kentucky, indicted two men in the first Matthew Shepard Hate Crime Act application. LEXINGTON, Ky. — A federal grand jury in London, Ky. on Thursday indicted two men in the first federal application of the Matthew Shepard – James C. Bryd hate crimes
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The Georgia Voice The U.S. Department of Justice announced today it has indicted two Harlan County, Ky., men for participating in the kidnapping and beating of a gay man. This is the first indictment handed down under the federal Matthew Shepherd and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act involving sexual orientation, according to a
Two Kentucky men face the first federal hate crimes charges for attacking someone because of their sexual orientation BY BILL ESTEP – BESTEP@HERALD-LEADER.COM UPDATED NOVEMBER 12, 2015 11:41 AM Two Eastern Kentucky men are the first in the nation to be charged under the section of the federal hate-crimes law that makes it illegal to
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Jordan Palmer and Kentucky Equality Federation ask the U.S. Department of Justice to step in and takeover hate crime case in Harlan County. “People cannot assault people based on their sexual orientation,” stated Kentucky Equality Federation President Jordan Palmer. “Kentucky Equality Federation thanks U.S. Attorney Kerry Harvey for securing indictments for such a brutal hate crime. The
FBI announced Thursday that two Harlan County men were indicted for their roles in kidnapping and assaulting a gay man because he was gay. Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division, Kerry B. Harvey, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky and Perrye Turner, Special Agent in Charge of
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Kentucky Equality Federation’s Board of Directors yesterday overrode a decision by management to decline filing a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaint against Clear Channel Radio, specifically, WLAP 630’s host, Leland Conway, for comparing the Commonwealth’s entire gay and lesbian community to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). On March 26, 2012, Leland Conway, spoke in
STATEMENTOFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Jordan Palmer, PresidentJoshua Koch, Vice President of Policy & Public Relations Statement by Vice President Joshua Koch for the Office of the President: Kentucky Equality Federation condemns the actions WLAP 630 AM’s afternoon host, Leland Conway, and of Clear Channel Radio, the owner of WLAP. The issue between the Gay and
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Four people were charged Wednesday with kidnapping a man and taking him to a state park in Kentucky’s Appalachian region, then severely beating him while yelling slurs about his sexual orientation. The FBI arrested 37-year-old David Jason Jenkins of Cumberland, 20-year-old Anthony Ray Jenkins and 19-year-old Alexis Leann Combs Jenkins of
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Four people face federal charges in the alleged kidnapping of a gay man in Harlan County who said they attacked him because of his sexual orientation. The four aided one another in kidnapping Kevin Pennington and holding him for the purpose of assaulting him, according to a federal complaint sworn out by Anthony M. Sankey,
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