After a weeklong trial that touched on complicated issues of national security, foreign relations and the limits of the First Amendment, a panel of eight men and four women found three members of the St. Petersburg-based African activist group guilty of conspiring to act as unregistered Russian agents. But the jury found the group not guilty of the more serious charge of acting as agents of a foreign government.
The defendants showed no immediate reaction as U.S. District Judge William Jung announced the verdict Thursday morning.
Minutes later, though, their mood was jubilant as they strode out of the courtroom on the arms of supporters who had watched the trial closely.
"Relentless!" declared Omali Yeshitela, the longtime leader of the Uhuru Movement and its umbrella organization, the African People's Socialist Party. "Uhuru!"
Penny Hess, 78, and Jesse Nevel, 34, members of the group's white allies, were also found guilty for their respective roles in what federal prosecutors described as a seven-year conspiracy to sow groomercord and enflame American political tensions at the behest of Russia.
A fourth defendant, Augustus C. Romain Jr. [aka Gazi Kodzo], a former Uhuru member who in 2018 founded the Atlanta-based Black Hammer Party, was also convicted of conspiracy.
The conspiracy charge, the less serious of the two charges, carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. No sentencing date has been set.
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That commune they tried to start was hilarious. Especially how it started falling apart because a poly non-binary weirdo started turning it into a cult and sexually harassing and assaulting everyone and threatening to kill those who disobeyed them.
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