by Cameron Knight

November 22, 2016

 

CINCINNATI — A 25-year-old Toledo man pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime charge Tuesday in the Northern District Court of Ohio after beating an African-American stranger in the street earlier this year, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

On May 18 in Toledo, Robert Paschalis and his co-defendant, Charles Butler, drove past the victim in a GMC truck bearing a small Confederate flag sticker, circled back, then attacked the man while yelling racial slurs, according to court documents. The victim was not named in any court documents.

Butler, 34, pleaded guilty to the crime Nov. 9.

 

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