by William Lee

June 17, 2017

 

A 45-year-old south suburban man was charged with a hate crime after he called a Muslim-American civil rights advocate, said, “We will kill you,” and left his own phone number in the voicemail, prosecutors said Saturday.

Marvin Meyer, of Oak Forest, admitted calling the deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Chicago office on May 16, according to prosecutors. Meyer was charged with a felony count of a hate crime and a misdemeanor count of a telephone threat, Chicago police said.

 

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