A trans-identified male who led a far-right militia to commit a number of sexist and racist crimes has been sentenced to 14 years on assorted domestic terrorism charges. The sentence comes in addition to the 53 years he was already serving for his role in a Mosque bombing.
Emily Claire Hari, a former Sheriff’s deputy, was responsible for establishing right-wing militia group known as the Patriot Freedom Fighters, later re-named to the White Rabbits.
Hari, along with the small group, began engaging in criminal activity in 2017 with the intention of carrying out acts of domestic terrorism. In August of that year, Hari’s group set an improvised incendiary device near the Imam’s office of the Dar-al Farooq Islamic Center. One of Hari’s associates, Micheal McWhorter, would later confirm the purpose of the attack was to “scare Muslims out of the United States.” No one was injured in the attack.
In November of 2017, Hari and his ‘militia’ targeted the Women’s Health Practice in Champaign, Illinois, where they threw a pipe bomb into the building. The bomb did not detonate and was found by a receptionist of the clinic who called police to safely extract the device from the facility.
Hari and his militia would go on to engage in a series of petty crimes in an attempt to gather the funds to continue their operations, including robbing a Hispanic man and holding up two local WalMarts in Clarence, Illinois in December of 2017.
In early 2018, Hari and his ‘militia’ attempted to sabotage railroad tracks near Effingham, Illinois with a bomb. After the attack, the group sent ransom emails demanding $190,000 in cryptocurrency under threat they would damage the railway further.
Shortly after, Hari tried to frame another individual for the crimes, but the effort would only lead to Federal Investigators more easily tracking him and the members of his militia down.
Hari and his colleagues were ultimately arrested, and, in 2021, Hari was sentenced to 53 years for his role in the Dar al-Farooq bombing.
On July 11, Hari was sentenced to an additional 14 years on a number of other charges related to his domestic terrorist activity after pleading guilty to the charges in February. According to a release by the Department of Justice, Hari was sentenced for threats of violence, attempted arson, unlawful possession of a machine-gun, and unlawful possession of a firearm as a felon. The sentence will be served concurrently, meaning the maximum time he will serve is still 53 years.
During his trial, it was revealed that Hari identified as a transgender ‘woman.’ While leading the White Rabbit militia, he had been searching terms such as ‘sex change,’ ‘transgender surgery,’ and ‘post-op transgender’ on the internet. Hari allegedly planned on fleeing to Thailand to get ‘gender affirming’ surgeries.
Hari had previously asked the court to take his gender dysphoria into consideration, and made a request for an amended Federal prison placement based on his identity. The details of his request were placed under a seal and the presiding Judge stated he would defer to the Bureau of Prisons to make the final call.
While Hari does not currently appear in any inmate registry, recent amendments to the Bureau of Prison’s transgender housing policy made since Hari’s initial sentencing indicate a strong possibility that Hari is currently incarcerated in a women’s prison.
On January 13, the Bureau of Prisons re-issued its Transgender Offender Manual, which included guidelines previously scrubbed by the Trump administration with respect to gender self-identification for federal inmates.
Under Trump, housing based on biological sex alone was taken into consideration for offender housing, but the revised policies stated that a transgender inmate’s “personal safety” was a priority.
The guidelines also stated that ‘misgendering’ inmates was expressly forbidden, and that prisons must provide cosmetic surgeries, sex hormones, and brassieres for men who claim to identify as transgender.
The Bureau of Prisons houses roughly 155,554 inmates at 122 facilities around the U.S. Of these, the agency estimates that approximately 1,300 self-declare a transgender status.
Prior to his involvement with the White Rabbit group, Hari had a criminal history which included abducting his own daughters. In 2006, Hari was sentenced to 30 months probation for kidnapping his two children and taking them to a Mennonite colony in Belize. At the time, he said he would only return them to their mother if they were sent to appear on Dr. Phil.
Both the Department of Justice and media reports about Hari’s sentencing uniformly referred to him as a ‘woman.’ The Wikipedia page on the Dar al-Farooq bombing has similarly removed references to Hari being male, and instead refers to him by feminine pronouns.
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