{"id":10218,"date":"2019-12-23T13:20:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T19:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/?p=10218"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:52:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:52:42","slug":"woman-that-ran-over-girl-for-being-a-mexican-has-been-officially-charged-with-a-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/woman-that-ran-over-girl-for-being-a-mexican-has-been-officially-charged-with-a-hate-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman that ran over girl for being “a Mexican” has been officially charged with a Hate Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"
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West Des Moines police announced that Sunday night\u00a0Nicole Poole Franklin, 42, was charged with a Hate crime.<\/p>\n

Police announced the filing of the felony hate crime charge Sunday in a news release. If Franklin is convicted, her sentence will be much severe.<\/p>

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The hate crime charges filed are in reference to an incident at a conoco gas station were Franklin yelled racial slurs at the station attendant. Police charged Franklin with theft and public intoxication.<\/p>\n

Franklin was arrested then.<\/p>\n

Then Clive Police Department identified Franklin as the driver of the suspect vehicle that had run over the teenage girl in December 9th. Detectives interviewed Franklin in the Polk County Jail, where she was being held on the other charges. During the interview Franklin not only admitted to being the driver of the car that struck this girl, but also that she had done so intentionally. Franklin told investigators that she ran the girl over because she was, in her words, \u201ca Mexican\u201d. She went on to make a number of derogatory statements about Latinos to the investigators.<\/p>\n

Franklin was charged with Attempted Murder and is currently being held in the Polk County Jail.<\/p>

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The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) issued a statement that called for hate crime charges to be filed also in the assault on Natalia Miranda, 14. The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Friday also issued a statement urging hate crime charges, calling it “an apparent racist attack in Iowa.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the latest victim in what has already been one of the bloodiest years for Latinos in the United States,\u201d Domingo Garcia, LULAC National president said in a statement.<\/p>

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\u201cThis attack was a racially motivated hate crime and must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We strongly urge Polk County officials to file hate crime charges against the suspect.\u201d said Nick Salazar, LULAC Iowa State Director on a statement on Friday night.<\/p>\n

“We believe the hit-and-run was a hate crime. That\u2019s our position and we\u2019re sure that that\u2019s the family\u2019s position as well,\u201d said Joe Henry president of the LULAC Des Moines council.<\/p>

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\u201cTo commit this crime without pursuing a hate-crime charge would be wrong. It would give the green light to anybody to do this type of terrible thing.” Henry added.<\/p>\n

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