Ohio man is now dealing with federal hate crime prices toward him
A person from Ohio was charged with committing a federal hate crime after he bodily assaulted an Asian-American pupil in Cincinnati, due to his race.
According to an information launch from the Department of Justice, Darrin Johnson, 26 was indicted by a federal grand jury on the hate crime cost and arrested on Wednesday. His case was unsealed when he appeared in the federal court docket at 1:30 pm.
The man attacked the sufferer on Calhoun Street at the University of Cincinnati. The incident passed off on August 17, 2021. Mr. Johnson approached the coed on a Cincinnati sidewalk and made racist slurs toward the sufferer. “Go again to your nation…You introduced the Kung flu right here…You’re going to die for bringing it.” He blamed the sufferer for Covid, as per the indictment filed in the court docket.
Johnson then requested the coed if he needed to struggle, CNN reported.
According to the grievance filed in a federal court docket, Mr. Johnson punched the sufferer on the facet of his head. The pressure of the punch brought about the sufferer to fall and hit his head on the bumper of a parked automobile, the discharge mentioned.
The sufferer suffered a minor concussion and cuts on his face. Johnson additionally threatened to kill the sufferer.
Two people who witnessed the assault intervened and one held Johnson down till legislation enforcement arrived.
In October 2021, Johnson pleaded responsible to misdemeanor assault and felony intimidation for the incident and was sentenced to serve 360 days in county jail.
If convicted of a federal hate crime, Johnson would withstand 10 years in jail.
