A 32-year-old North Carolina man was sentenced to 40 months in prison for threatening eight people with force over their race, religion, color and national origin, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
According to court documents, Maurice Hopkins threatened eight people with a firearm inside a restaurant in Charlotte. He approached the group and asked if they were American, then called them terrorists, demanded they speak English, told them to go back to their country and made other similar discriminatory statements.
Hopkins made multiple threats according to court documents, including “If you say one more thing, I’m going to punch you in the face,” and threatening to “shoot the place up” and “kill all of them.”…