240-year prison sentence for a black man who vowed to burn whites

NEW YORK — A judge sentenced a man to 240 years in prison Wednesday for taking hostages in a bar and telling patrons that “white people are going to burn tonight.”
State Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley told Steven Johnson, 39, who is black, that he had forfeited his “right to live in society.”
Johnson, 39, was [...]

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