Postal Service carrier was sentenced Friday to three years in federal prison.
“No one should live in fear of being targeted because of their religious beliefs,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Davis said said in the attorney’s office statement.
The carrier, identified only as a 47-year-old woman of Muslim faith, took note, prosecutors and investigators said in the criminal complaint filed against Pinkney.
"Go back to your country," the defendant allegedly told the carrier, according to the U.S. attorney's statement on Friday.
She got inside the truck, where Pinkney grabbed her neck and, after a struggle, pulled off her hijab, the U.S. attorney's office said.
Persons:
Kenneth Pinkney, “, ”, Michael Davis, Prosecutors, Pinkney, Jeffrey B, Veltri
Organizations:
U.S . Postal Service, Attorney's, Southern, Southern District of, Prosecutors, FBI
Locations:
Florida, U.S, Fort Lauderdale, Southern District, Southern District of Florida, Broward County, Israel, FBI Miami
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