A White man learned his fate after it was discovered that he wanted the KKK to lynch his Black neighbor. On April 12, Brandon Cory Lecroy was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempting to have his Black neighbor lynched by a person he thought was a member of the KKK.
The incident occurred in Lexington County, South Carolina, according to The State.
Brandon Cory Lecroy claimed that his Black neighbor, identified only by the initials “FJ,” went on his property several times and tried to start fights, asked for food, and attempted to use his phone. Lercoy said that he only reached out to the KKK after police failed to help him.
Lecroy called a number that he believed belonged to a member of the KKK. However, it was actually an undercover FBI agent who posed as a KKK hitman named Mark.
Secretly-recorded tapes by the FBI revealed that Lecroy used racist language and wanted his Black neighbor lynched while the KKK member used a flaming cross. In one recording, Lecroy referred to FJ as “vermin that you are exterminating.”
Lecroy’s offense qualified as a federal hate crime and he was given the maximum sentence.
Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks agreed to keep the audio recordings unavailable to the public. Lecroy’s lawyer claimed that the language used was so racially charged that he would be a wanted man by gang members of the “Bloods and Crips.”
