Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi, 33, and Levi Aki Jr., 33, from Maui Island, Hawaii, were sentenced in federal court for attacking a white man, reference in court documents as C.K.
At trial, the evidence revealed that C.K. was harassed and threatened by the residents of Kahakuloa, who believed that he did not belong there because of his skin color. On Feb. 13, 2014, the defendants, who had never met C.K. before, stormed onto his property and demanded that he leave, threatening him with violence. Alo-Kaonohi then attacked C.K. with a roofing shovel. C.K. suffered a concussion and broken ribs. During the attack, one of the defendants said, “no white man is ever going to live here.”
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said,
“The law protects everyone in this country from racially motivated violence, and these sentences send a strong message that such violence will not be tolerated.”
During the sentencing hearing, it was revealed that Alo-Kaonohi had committed a similar unprovoked attack on a white man at a bar in Wailuku, Maui, just months after his attack on C.K.
Alo-Kaonohi was sentenced to 78 months in prison, while Aki received a 50-month sentence.
The FBI Honolulu Field Office conducted the investigation.
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