Manuel was held in solitary confinement, where he was abused by
corrections officers and saw "people kill themselves and be
killed.
SPLC's UN delegation pulls back curtain on U.S. civil and human
rights abuses
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Rhonda Sonnenberg Read the full piece here
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Friend,
Ian Manuel. Haifa Jabara. Taylor Dumpson. Names you probably
don't know unless you closely follow hate crimes committed in
the U.S. and torture in American prisons.
Names that represent how basic human rights are denied to many
Americans.
"I remember being in prison and reading about the outrage over
Abu Ghraib
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and thinking, 'Where is the outrage here? This is happening in
America,'" Manuel told the Southern Poverty Law Center,
referencing the Iraqi prison where U.S. soldiers abused detainees.
Manuel
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was 14 years old when he was sentenced in 1991 to life in prison
without parole for a crime that was not a homicide. For 18 of the 26
years he was incarcerated in Florida, Manuel was held in solitary
confinement, where he was abused by corrections officers and saw
"people kill themselves and be killed."
Jabara
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nearly lost her life in 2015 when a next-door neighbor in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, drove his car into her after years of harassing her family
with ethnic slurs and threats because of their Lebanese heritage. When
her assailant was released from jail on bond without notice to her and
her family, he murdered her 37-year-old son in a vicious hate crime.
Dumpson
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was an American University student in Washington, D.C., when on her
first day in office as the first elected Black student body president
in 2017, a masked man hung nooses with bananas around campus. The
bananas were inscribed with racist language and the letters of
Dumpson's predominantly Black sorority. That act of intimidation
was followed by a relentless online harassment campaign led by a
notorious neo-Nazi on the hate website Daily Stormer. That year, she
became a hate crime statistic as one of the more than 7,175 reported
victims.
"The physical hate was first, but it's important because
it made the cyber harassment that much more intimidating,"
Dumpson said. Six years later, she still carefully monitors online
threats against her and reports the serious ones to state and federal
law enforcement.
"Hate is a live landscape that follows you," Dumpson said.
"Anytime I move to a new jurisdiction, I tell state and local
law enforcement of my experience - that threats against me are
not made by a 'lone wolf' but are part of my life."
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