Michael Frederick Jr. of Warren, Michigan, terrorized his Black neighbors for weeks in 2020, damaging vehicles, painting graffiti on their home and breaking windows. During sentencing for his crimes, Frederick claimed he had no ill will towards the couple — he just didn’t like the Black Lives Matter sign they had on display.
The Associated Press reported that even though Frederick “shot at a Black family’s Michigan home, slashed tires on a vehicle and wrote racist graffiti on a pickup truck,” he later told Judge Diane Druzinski during sentencing in Macomb County Circuit Court that “his actions weren’t an attack on Eddie and Candace Hall ‘personally.’”
Instead, Frederick claimed, “I targeted these people because I didn’t like their political sign that they had in the window. I think you guys are some great people and didn’t deserve this at all.”
