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| Four charged with hate crime for Chicago Facebook Live attack | Four charged with hate crime for Chicago Facebook Live attack |
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| Four black people face hate crime and kidnapping charges for the Facebook Live-aired torture of a mentally disabled white man. | |
| Jordan Hill, 18, Tesfaye Cooper, 18, Brittany Covington, 18, and Tanishia Covington, 24, are expected to appear in a Chicago court on Friday. | |
| In the video, the assailants can be heard making derogatory statements against white people and Donald Trump. | |
| Chicago police have described the incident as a "sickening". | Chicago police have described the incident as a "sickening". |
| The suspects have also all been charged with aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. | |
| Mr Hill is further charged with robbery and possession of a stolen motor. | |
| All the suspects, apart from Tanishia Covington, also each face a count of residential burglary. | |
| In an assault that went on for two days in a flat on the Illinois city's west side, the victim was made to drink from a toilet bowl, had part of his scalp removed with a knife, and was bound, gagged and beaten. | |
| The unnamed 18-year-old - a school acquaintance of one of the alleged attackers - was found disorientated, walking the streets. | |
| He was taken to hospital, traumatised, and had difficulty communicating with police, but was later discharged. | |
| "It makes you wonder what would make individuals treat somebody like that," said Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. | |
| "I've been a cop for 28 years, and I've seen things that you shouldn't see in a lifetime, but it still amazes me how you still see things that you just shouldn't." | |
| Another police spokesman said earlier that the four black suspects had made "terrible racist statements" during the assault. | |
| But he said investigators suspect the victim was targeted because he has "special needs", not because he is white. | |
| In the 30-minute video, the attackers can be seen cutting the victim's clothes, dropping cigarette ash on him, pushing his head back with a foot and drawing blood by cutting off some of his hair with a knife. | |
| Several people can be seen drinking, laughing and smoking, while their captive cowers in the corner of the room. | |
| In other videos posted online the young man is beaten, made to drink from a toilet bowl and forced at knife-point to say: "I love black people". | |
| An African-American woman talks to the camera, sometimes with slurred speech. At least two male African-Americans are also visible in the footage. | |
| The incident has provoked a strong reaction on Twitter, especially among the alt-right - the fringe group that celebrated US President-elect Trump's election win with Nazi salutes. | |
| They said the mainstream media was slower to react, and the police more hesitant to label it a hate crime, than if a black person had been assaulted by white people. | |
| The hashtag #BLMKidnapping was adopted by users suggesting the Black Lives Matter campaign was in some way involved. | |
| But police have not mentioned the organisation in connection with the incident. |