“Devin Freelon Jr. and two friends were playing music while walking to the parking lot in a waterfront park in Monroe County, Mich., when they saw a White man walking toward them. ‘N—–rs don’t belong on this beach,’ Lee James Mouat yelled at the boys, who are Black, on June 6, according to a criminal complaint released this week. Mouat, 42, then grabbed a bike lock and struck Freelon, 18, in the face, said several witnesses. The blow knocked out several of Freelon’s teeth and shattered his jaw. Federal prosecutors charged Mouat on Tuesday with a hate crime for ‘willfully causing bodily injury to an African-American teenager because of the teenager’s race.’ If convicted, Mouat faces up to 10 years in prison. The case is the latest hate-crime charge filed by federal prosecutors this year against White suspects accused of attacking Black people in racially charged assaults” – Washington Post.