Retired clam farmer guilty of racial attack at Florida massacre site gets prison sentence

Source: Miami Herald

Retired clam farmer guilty of racial attack at Florida massacre site gets prison sentence

Jack Lemnus
Fri, October 20, 2023 at 11:54 AM EDT·5 min read

A federal judge has sentenced a man to a year in prison after his conviction of attempting to run down six Black men last year at the site of the Rosewood massacre.

David Allen Emanuel, 62, who is white, appeared solemn and reserved as U.S. Judge Allen Winsor delivered the sentence Thursday on six counts of hate crimes for attempting to run over Miami historian Marvin Dunn, his son and four other Black men who were surveying Dunn’s Rosewood property to build a memorial for the massacre.

Winsor sentenced Emanuel to 12 months plus one day in federal prison for each of the six charges and allowed the sentences to run concurrently. The Justice Department had sought a “substantial” prison term of between five and six years.

Emanuel, a retired clam farmer in Levy County in north-central Florida, must surrender to report to prison no later than noon Jan. 2, the judge said. He was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release after he finished his prison term.

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