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Self-proclaimed Ku Klux Klan leader Harry H. “Skip” Rogers was sentenced to 6 years in jail in connection with a June 7 incident during which he drove his truck into a group of protesters marching in support of social justice in Lakeside.
Henrico Judge Thomas Bondurant, Jr. convicted Rogers of six misdemeanors – assault, hit-and-run, destruction of property among them – in Henrico General District Court. Rogers still is facing three other felony counts of attempted malicious wounding.
Henrico Commonwealth’s Attorney Shannon Taylor had sought to have Rogers punished for hate crimes, but Bondurant did not apply any hate-crime punishments on top of the four assault charges of which he convicted Rogers.
He ruled that Rogers didn’t intentionally select the victims – who were white – because of their race, denying Taylor’s claim that he had done so because the victims were supporting Blacks.
