hate crime
HONOLULU (AP) — Two Native Hawaiian men wouldn’t have brutally beat a man if he wasn’t white, a federal judge said Thursday in sentencing them to yearslong prison terms for a hate crime in a case that reflects Hawaii’s nuanced and complicated relationship with race.
A jury convicted Kaulana Alo-...
HONOLULU (AP) — A jury on Thursday found two Native Hawaiian men guilty of a hate crime for the 2014 beating of a white man who was fixing up a house he purchased in their remote Maui neighborhood.
U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright ordered Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi Aki Jr. detained...

![This photo provided by Kawena Alo-Kaonohi shows a view looking down into Kahakuloa village in Wailuku, Hawaii, Jan. 18, 2020. Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi Aki Jr. were sentenced Thursday for a federal hate crime in the 2014 brutal beating of a white man who tried to move into their remote, traditional fishing village. [Courtesy of Kawena Alo-Kaonohi via AP] Kahakuloa village](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/kahakuloa_village_web_0.jpg?itok=CYn3t9b0)
![Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi’s mother, Maipela Kaonohi, left, his son, center, and his sister Kawehilani Alo-Kaonohi are shown outside U.S. District Court in Honolulu after Alo-Kaonohi, who is Native Hawaiian, was found guilty of a hate crime in the 2014 beating of a white man. [photo: AP / Jennifer Sinco Kelleher] Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi’s mother, Maipela Kaonohi, left, his son and sister](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/maui_child_web.jpg?itok=dKDPXQ-4)