NBC News reported that the woman was eventually able to get out of her car to get his license plate information and called for someone to call the police. Friedmann drove his car in the direction of the woman,"nearly striking her with his car," court records stated. The news outlet went on to state that prosecutors alleged that Friedmann"came within inches" of hitting the woman and hit her bumper and side door.
Police arrived at the scene and placed Friedmann into custody. Records noted that an officer saw the result of the collision between the two vehicles. Friedmann admitted to spitting on the woman and hitting her car, according to the court records.News reported that at a court hearing, his lawyer denied that Friedmann used any racial language.
The two charges Friedmann faces are both felonies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation defined a hate crime as a typical offense like murder or arson, but there is an"added element of bias."has defined a hate crime as a 'criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender or gender identity,'" the FBI website states.
A photo of a police car in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A man was charged with a hate crime in Illinois after he allegedly spat in the face of a Black woman and tried to hit her with his car."The university remains committed to diversity and inclusion and takes the health and well-being of students and employees very seriously," a school official told
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