Jordan hill chicago trial date
In January , four perpetrators: Jordan Hill, Tesfaye "Teefies" Cooper, and Brittany and Tanishia Covington committed a hate crime and other offenses..
A Cook County judge Thursday handed an eight-year prison sentence and a lesson in black history to a man who pleaded guilty to hate crime charges.
2017 Chicago torture incident
Livestreamed torture incident
In January 2017, four perpetrators: Jordan Hill, Tesfaye "Teefies" Cooper, and Brittany and Tanishia Covington committed a hate crime and other offenses against a mentally disabled man in Chicago, Illinois.
The attackers, two black men and two black women, laughed as they kidnapped and physically, verbally, and racially abused the white victim. The incident was livestreamed on Facebook.
The victim met with an acquaintance from high school at a McDonald's on New Year's Eve, and on January 3 was found by a police officer to appear to be suffering from numerous injuries while being led by one of the perpetrators on a sidewalk.
Four black people charged with a hate crime in an attack on a white mentally disabled man that was shown live on Facebook have pleaded not.The four perpetrators were arrested after the incident was livestreamed by one of them on Facebook Live, and were all given plea deals for hate crime charges and other offenses. The sentences ranged from probation to 8 years in prison.
Kidnapping and torture
On December 31, 2016, the victim, a