Man sentenced to nearly 7 years for attacking Black man with knife was repeat hate crime offender
CNN
A repeat hate crime offender was sentenced to nearly seven years in federal prison for an unprovoked knife attack against a Black man in California, the Justice Department announced Friday.
Ole Hougen, 45, was convicted in April for confronting a 29-year-old Black man with racial slurs and slashing the man up to 20 times in the head and chest with a nine-inch knife while the man was trying to cross the street in Santa Cruz, according to the news release.
Prosecutors say Hougen was on probation at the time of the September 2020 attack. He pleaded no contest to state charges stemming from an attack in 2018 that involved a different Black man. This latest conviction is Hougen's fourth known racially motivated attack against Black men in the last seven years, according to the news release.
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