Four avowed white supremacists were sentenced to federal prison Friday after pleading guilty to hate crimes and lying to the FBI about brutally beating a Black DJ unconscious at a Lynnwood tavern in 2018. The attack took place just hours after the four men attended a ceremony marking the death of the murderous neo-Nazi activist Robert Jay Mathews, founder of The Order, who was killed in an FBI shootout at Smuggler’s Cove on Whidbey Island in 1984. U.S. District Judge Richard Jones told each of the men in turn that their actions were reprehensible and that they were heroes to nobody’s cause. “The man you revered is no martyr,” Jones told one of the defendants, Jason Stanley, a 46-year-old skinhead and felon from Boise, Idaho. “He was a manager of hate.” “You have a right to hold your feelings and thoughts,” Jones said. “Nowhere does that protection extend to beating someone.” Stanley, who is heavily tattooed with white supremacist slogans and pictures, including the likeness of Adolf Hitler, was sentenced to federal prison for 48 months, even though the defense and prosecution had agreed to recommend a 37-month sentence. Another of the men, Jason DeSimas, 45, also was given a four-year prison sentence. A third defendant, 42-year-old Randy Smith, received a 42-month sentence, and the fourth man, Daniel Dorson, 27, was given 28 months. The men, indicted in 2020 after an extensive FBI investigation, were also ordered to serve three years apiece of supervised release and pay $170,969.48 total in restitution of Smith’s medical expenses and lost wages.
via seattletimes: White supremacists sent to prison for brutal assault on Black DJ at WA bar