Two Native Hawaiian men were each sentenced to several years in prison for a federal hate crime in the brutal beating of a white man who was attempting to move into their remote Maui village.
A jury in November found that Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi and Levi Aki Jr. attacked Christopher Kunzelman because of his race — punching, kicking and beating him with a shovel in 2014, when he tried to move into their neighborhood of Kahakuloa.
Local lawyers believe it’s the first time the US has prosecuted native Hawaiians for hate crimes. The case has highlighted the struggle between native Hawaiians looking to preserve their culture and newcomers to Hawaii who are unaware of its history and racial dynamics. “It was obviously a hate crime from the very beginning,” she said. “The whole time they’re saying things like, ‘You have the wrong skin color. No ‘haole’ is ever going to live in our neighborhood.’”
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