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Man gets 10-month sentence for threatening Muslim politician

by Associated Press
| June 2, 2020 11:03 AM

A North Carolina man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 months in prison for anonymously threatening on social media to lynch a Muslim-American man who ran for a state Senate seat in Virginia, according to prosecutors.

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