An Iowa woman who told police in 2019 that she ran over a girl because she was a Mexican pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal hate crime charges, according to court records filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
Nicole Marie Poole Franklin had actually been involved in three separate racist incidents in December 2019, according to two police departments.
Footage from the Des Moines Police Department shows Poole Franklin intentionally ran over the leg of a 12-year-old boy, who is Black, and fled.
The boy was walking along the curb of a Des Moines apartment parking lot when an SUV jumped the curb, ran over his leg and fled, police reported.
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