‘Campaign of Terror’: Kansas Man Who Pulled Gun on Black Children, Prevented White Neighbor from Inviting Black People to Her Home Sentenced to More Than Six Years in Prison

A man who pleaded guilty to federal charges connected to his racial threats against Black children and interfering with a woman’s housing rights has been sentenced for his crimes. Austin Schoemann will spend six years and eight months in prison for two counts of interference with federally protected activities, two counts of interstate threats, and one count of interference with housing. Austin Schoemann is facing federal hate crime charges for terrorizing Black people in Kansas. (Photo: Sedgwick County Jai) The 31-year-old confessed to prosecutors that he pulled out a gun at a QuikTrip gas station in Wichita, Kansas, in July 2022 and threatened two Black kids while calling them racial slurs. When a Black woman intervened to defend the children, Schoemann turned the weapon on her. No one was hurt in this incident. Schoemann also admitted that from January 2022 to August 2022, he told a white woman that he would hurt or kill any Black woman who visited her home. The indictment reads that Schoemann stood outside the woman’s home and shouted threats and racial slurs during times when he thought she had Black visitors or planned to invite Black people into her home. He also sent videos and...