Four African-Americans who tortured white man with special needs held without bail


  • World
  • Saturday, 07 Jan 2017

(Clockwise from top left) Brittany Covington, Jordan Hill, Tanishia Covington and Tesfaye Cooper. PHOTOS: CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT.

CHICAGO: Four African-Americans accused of attacking an 18-year-old white man with special needs while making anti-white racial taunts in an assault broadcast on Facebook were ordered held without bail by a Chicago judge on Friday (Jan 6).

Jordan Hill, Tesfaye Cooper and sisters Brittany and Tanishia Covington were each charged with aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint, and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon on Thursday (Jan 5). Tanishia Covington was aged 24, while her sister and the two men were 18.

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