A 63-year-old suburban Chicago man on Wednesday was found guilty of a hate crime for berating a woman over her Puerto Rico flag T-shirt last year, WMAQ-TV reported. Ditch the fake news ==> Click here to get news you can trust sent right to your inbox. It’s free!
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Mia Irizarry, 25, testified Tuesday she feared for her safety when Timothy Trybus of Des Plaines, Illinois, confronted her on June 14, 2018, the station said.
Irizarry recorded the incident at Caldwell Woods forest preserve on her cellphone, WBBM-TV reported, during which Trybus can be heard saying, “You should not be wearing that in the United States of America,” and, “Are you a citizen? Are you a United States citizen?”
“Yes, I am a citizen,” Irizarry can be heard responding. “Can you please get away from me?”
She said she was wearing the T-shirt because it was Puerto Rican pride weekend, WBBM reported, adding that Irizarry rented the space to celebrate her birthday.
