A Chicago-area man, who was seen on video last year berating a woman for wearing a shirt displaying the Puerto Rican flag and repeatedly asking her if she's a US citizen, was found guilty of a hate crime.
was found guilty of a hate crime.
Timothy Trybus, of the suburb of Des Plaines, was convicted Wednesday in a Cook County court over his tirade against Mia Irizarry at the Caldwell Woods forest preserve in Chicago in June 2018, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office. In cellphone footage captured by Irizarry, Trybus repeatedly asks her if she is a U.S. citizen and when Irizarry tells him that she is, he chides her for wearing a shirt with the Puerto Rican flag.Forest Preserves of Cook CountyAt another point in the video, he tells her:"You're not going to change us. ... If you're an American citizen, you should not be wearing that shirt in America.
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