{"id":288816,"date":"2017-01-05T23:51:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hate-crime-charges-filed-in-torture-kidnapping-of-white-man-in-chicago\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T23:51:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:51:56","slug":"hate-crime-charges-filed-in-torture-kidnapping-of-white-man-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hate-crime-charges-filed-in-torture-kidnapping-of-white-man-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate Crime Charges Filed in Torture, Kidnapping of White Man in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Hate crime and kidnapping charges have been filed against four African-Americans who abducted and tortured an 18-year-old white man with special needs in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago police charged three 18-year-olds \u2014 Jordan Hill, Tesfaye Cooper and Brittany Covington \u2014 with aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/Charges-Expected-After-4-Broadcast-Teens-Torture-on-Facebook-Live-409772755.html?s&amp;_osource=SocialFlowTwt_CHBrand\" target=\"_blank\">according to NBC Chicago<\/a>. Tanishia Covington, 24, faces similar charges.<\/p>\n<p>The four were arrested on Wednesday after a video from\u00a0Facebook Live surfaced of the suspects shouting \u201cfuck white people\u201d and \u201cfuck Donald Trump\u201d as they tortured 18-year-old Austin Hilbourn.<\/p>\n<p>Hilbourn, who lives in a Chicago suburb and has been described as having \u201cmental health challenges,\u201d was shown bound and gagged as the suspects beat him, cut him with a knife and forced him to drink water from a toilet.<\/p>\n<p>Hilbourn disappeared on Dec. 31 after his parents dropped him off at a McDonald\u2019s. One of the suspects later called Hilsbourn\u2019s parents to say that they had his son in captivity. The kidnappers released Hilbourn who was found by police in a state of shock. Investigators believe that he was held captive for at least 24 hours. They also believe that one of the suspects knew Hilbourn from school.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Wednesday declined to characterize the brutal torture as a hate crime. Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson also declined to speculate whether the attackers, despite yelling anti-Donald Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/hate-crime-charges-filed-in-torture-kidnapping-of-white-man-in-chicago\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate crime and kidnapping charges have been filed against four African-Americans who abducted and tortured an 18-year-old white man with special needs in Chicago. Chicago police charged three 18-year-olds \u2014 Jordan Hill, Tesfaye Cooper and Brittany Covington \u2014 with aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}