Court documents show a Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump’s America now."

Summary

Patrick Thomas Egan, 39, was arrested in Colorado for allegedly attacking TV reporter Ja’Ronn Alex, demanding to know if Alex was a U.S. citizen and declaring, “This is Trump’s America now.”

Police say Egan followed Alex’s vehicle for 40 miles, confronted him at his news station, and tackled him, putting him in a headlock that left Alex struggling to breathe.

The attack is being investigated as a possible bias-motivated crime.

Egan faces charges of assault and harassment, with prosecutors yet to file formal charges.

  • @YarHarSuperstar
    18•2 days ago

    Uh I’m pretty sure “racist asshole” covered it, no need to imply that mental illness causes racism (cause it doesn’t)

    • @[email protected]English
      6•2 days ago

      Mental illness doesn’t cause racism, but healthy people don’t follow other people for 60km and then try and beat them up

      • @Doomsider
        6•2 days ago

        Healthy people don’t follow a random stranger for an hour to assault them because of the perceived darkness of their skin.

        It really blows my mind we are dealing with a resurgence of racism in the 21st century in America. I was over it when I was a child. It is like I got teleported back to the 1800s.

        We really fucked up by not stomping out the south will rise again bullshit. We coddled racism so long we allowed it to fester and grow like the cancer it is.

        • socsaEnglish
          1•2 days ago

          By this logic no healthy person would ever vote for a cartoonishly stupid oompa loompa.