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MADISON, Wis. - A University Wisconsin-Madison student who is trying to start a white nationalist movement on campus previously served time in a federal prison, according to court records.
Daniel Dropik, 33, pleaded guilty to arson charges after starting fires to two churches with predominantly black congregations -- one in Milwaukee and the other in Michigan -- in 2005.
He was sentenced to 5 years and 3 months in prison.
A fire on April 16 caused approximately $1,000 damage to the Greater Love Missionary Baptist Church in Milwaukee. Another fire the next day caused $5,000 damage to the Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church in Lansing, Michigan.
According to court documents, Dropik set the fires as racial retaliation for prior encounters with African-Americans not related to either church. According to the documents, Dropik set the fires after he was allegedly beat up by several black men at a party near the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank addressed the findings Thursday with the campus.
"I have also become aware that he was convicted in 2005 of racially motivated arsons of two African-American churches. I am appalled by attacks on churches and by organizations that express hatred of people of color, Jews, Muslims or any other identity," Blank said in the statement.
http://www.channel3000.com/news/crime/uw-student-trying-to-start-alt-right-group-pled-guilty-to-arson-of-black-churches/294657140
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