An Iowa woman pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges on Monday stemming from a 2019 incident in which she drove her car into two children “because of their race and national origin,” according to a statement from the Department of Justice.
Nicole Franklin, 42, testified that on December 9, 2019, in De Moines, Iowa, she drove her Jeep Grand Cherokee into a child, believing the child to be of “Middle Eastern or African descent.”
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