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Chicago: Hate Crimes Charges for Teens in Torture Video

HeadlineJan 06, 2017

In Chicago, four teenagers will face felony hate crimes and other charges, after a video they posted to Facebook showed them torturing a bound and gagged mentally disabled teenager, while taunting him with racial epithets. The four could face sentences of up to 30 years in prison. The suspects are African-American, and their victim is white, which prompted a racist backlash on social media sites. White supremacist groups sought to tie the four to the Black Lives Matter movement, using the hashtag “#BLMKidnapping.”

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