Far-right teen who branded Prince Harry 'race traitor' jailed for four years

[demmiblue]

London (CNN)A far-right teenager who reportedly branded Prince Harry a "race traitor" and suggested he should be shot after his marriage to Meghan Markle has been jailed in Britain for four years and three months.

Michal Szewczuk, 19, posted extremist material including an image of the prince with a
gun to his head on a blood-spattered background, the UK Press Association (PA) news agency reported.

Published months after Harry's wedding to Meghan, whose mother is African-American, the image also featured a swastika and the phrase: "See Ya Later Race Traitor."

Szewczuk was sentenced at the Old Bailey in London Tuesday, after pleading guilty to two counts of encouraging terrorism and five accounts of possessing terrorist material, the UK's Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) unit confirmed in a statement.

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[samnsara]

1. ? which one is the racist teen?

[flotsam]

2. Being an asshole gets you 4 years in England?

If it worked that way here we would need a fuck-ton more prisons...

[Laurian]

3. The graphic picture was probably taken as a threat.

I don’t think his sentence unfair. Punks need to experience consequences for their behavior.

[SouthernProgressive]

5. I think the charges stem from other material they were promoting.

"She added that the targets of their posts included non-white people, the Jewish population and anyone "perceived to be complicit in the perpetuation of multi-culturalism.""

[lark]

4. Damn, I'm jealous of Britain.

If this happened in America it'd be totally ignored and he'd go on to kill anyone not sufficiently white or who supported a minority person.

[ProudLib72]

6. tRump says...

The Donald thinks this is unfair! Fake news reporting nice teen going to jail. Why doesn't UK follow our lead with freedom of speech? Good people on both sides! The Donald is going to offer that boy a position in his cabinet when he wins again in 2024.