A Texas man has been sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for using an LGBTQ dating app to commit violent hate crimes against gay men, officials say.
Daniel Jenkins, 22, pleaded guilty in June to committing a series of robberies, carjackings and other crimes in the Dallas area in December 2017, the Justice Department said in a
“This defendant targeted innocent victims for violent crimes simply because he believed they were gay,” the assistant attorney general for civil rights, Kristen Clarke, said in a statement. “This sentence affirms that bias-motivated crimes run contrary to our national values and underscores the Justice Department’s commitment to aggressively prosecuting bias-motivated crimes, including crimes against the LGBTQI community.
Jenkins’ co-conspirators — Michael Atkinson, Pablo Ceniceros-Deleon and Daryl Henry — all pleaded guilty in June. They were in their 20s, as well.
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