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Obama Backlash: Three Charged for Crimes Following Election

 
By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020
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 Three young men from Staten Island, New York, were charged with conspiracy to interfere with voting rights after attacking two Black men and leaving a White man in a coma (they thought he was Black), all while yelling ‘Obama’ following the president-elect’s win on Election Day, according to the New York Times.