4 in custody, Detroit beating probe widens into hate crime investigation.

Source: Detroit News


Snip< Detroit — With four suspects now in custody, police and prosecutors are “widening the scope” of their investigation into last week’s beating of a 54-year-old white motorist to include the possibility that the mob assault was a hate crime, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Monday.

Snip< “We’re widening the scope of our investigation,” Craig said when asked if the beating constituted a hate crime. “Both our strategy and the prosecutor’s strategy is widening, and those factors are being looked into very closely. I can’t reveal some things about our investigation, but that is definitely something we’re considering.”





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