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COOK COUNTY, Ill. --
The man seen in a viral video harassing a woman for wearing a Puerto Rican flag shirt has been charged with a hate crime.
The Cook County State's Attorney's Office said Timothy Trybus, 62, has been charged with two counts of felony hate crime. He had previously been charged with misdemeanor assault for the incident.
Trybus was caught on camera last month verbally harassing Mia Irizarry in the Forest Preserves of Cook County in June. The video shows him approaching her, asking why she is wearing a Puerto Rican flag shirt with the words "Puerto Rico" written below the neckline.
http://abc7.com/man-who-harassed-woman-for-puerto-rico-shirt-charged-with-hate-crime/3753960/
RKP5637
(67,084 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)Rec
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,540 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,162 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,938 posts)... even if tRump pardons him.
Raastan
(266 posts)Now, what to do with the police officer that ignored her pleas for assistance...?
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)...he resigned from the force.
ret5hd
(20,480 posts)byronius
(7,389 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)As Trybus continues to harass her other officers arrived and a female police officer finally steps in on behalf of Irizarry.
The officer, identified by authorities as Patrick Connor, resigned Wednesday night. He was supposed to face a disciplinary hearing Thursday.
ret5hd
(20,480 posts)He resigned to keep things off his record.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,308 posts)He looked a little long in the tooth.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)And having another job is okay. Just not as a policeman. Which he won't be. Law enforcement is a group thing...word gets around.
ret5hd
(20,480 posts)to a different city. It's part of the game.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)He had been put on desk duty, so resigned before disc. hrg. It's part of his personnel file, and it's been on nat'l news.
ProfessorGAC
(64,827 posts)There are some fairly strict laws about that.
Now, in this particular case, since the disciplinary hearing didn't take place, there is no formal paper trail, so you might be right.
So, it would be public information that would potentially derail him, but not an official disciplinary action.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)ecstatic
(32,641 posts)Enough of this shit.
#Basta!
VOX
(22,976 posts)Puerto Rico has been a U.S. Territory since 1898. Puerto Ricans, since 1917, are by law citizens of the United States and may come and go freely between the island and the mainland.
On second thought, it's perfectly natural for a right-wing nutcase, with no respect for anyone's personal boundaries. One shouldn't expect anything more from a zombie fascist.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Rita Moreno!
Rita Moreno has had a thriving acting career for the better part of six decades. One of the very few performers (and the very first) to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy, she was born Rosita Dolores Alverío in Humacao, Puerto Rico, on December 11, 1931, to seamstress Rosa María (Marcano) and farmer Francisco José "Paco" Alverío. She was in The King and I, Westside Story, Singin' in the Rain, The Four Seasons (with Alan Alda), and many other productions over her 6 decades in the biz.
She was awarded th ePresidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in June 2004.
Initech
(100,029 posts)And now these morons are calling for a #DayOfCivilty? Yeah right!
NBachers
(17,080 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)OldManTarHeel
(435 posts)Have a nice day, asshole . .
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Civil society cannot tolerate this asinine intolerance. Lock him up.
C Moon
(12,208 posts)It needs to be addressed (as it is in this situation).
Gothmog
(144,884 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)It's a genuine hate crime and he was targeting her based on skin color.
It was impossible to target her as a foreigner considering that she is a citizen.
djacq
(1,633 posts)Took me 30 seconds to Google the list.
What a racist dumbass.