A Georgia couple has been sentenced to prison time after a 2015 incident in which they made threats and used racial slurs against Black attendees at a child’s birthday party.
In July 2015 Jose Torres, 26, and Kayla Norton, 25, and other members of a group called “Respect the Flag” drove around Douglas County and Paulding County, Ga., waving Confederate flags and making racist comments and threats to Blacks in the community. The group eventually reached an outdoor child’s birthday party with predominantly Black attendees in Douglasville.
According to a post on the official Facebook page for the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office, “Victims and witnesses from the party, who were predominantly African American, testified to observing the group of trucks whose passengers were hurling a litany of racial slurs at them as they passed by.”
