Phony racist gets probation for death threats

Phony racist gets probation for death threats

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A black man from Mississippi who posed as a white supremacist and sent racist death threats over the Internet in the aftermath of "President Barack Obama's":http://www.whitehouse.gov/ election has been sentenced to three years of probation. U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt also on Wednesday ordered 20-year-old Dyron Hart, of Poplarville, Miss., to perform 150 hours of community service and complete a racial sensitivity course. Hart was charged with using a fake profile on the "Facebook":http://www.facebook.com social networking Web site to send threatening messages to three black students at "Nicholls State University":http://www.nicholls.edu/ in Thibodaux. Authorities said he pretended to be a white man upset by Obama's election when he threatened to kill the students. _Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed._