Man charged with hate crime for allegedly cutting internet cable of people he thought were undocumented immigrants – By Jared Gans (The Hill) / Oct 21, 2022
A Wisconsin man has been charged with a hate crime after prosecutors alleged he cut his neighbors’ internet cable cords because he believed they were undocumented immigrants, NBC reported Friday.
A worker came to the apartment above 48-year-old Shannon Pearson’s on Sept. 22 to install internet service, but Pearson met with the worker to tell him that the neighbors were in the United States illegally.
NBC reported that Pearson originally told officers that the worker “freaked out” and cut the cable before he left. He said he then confronted his neighbors, who do not speak English, upstairs, but one pushed him down the stairs.
The neighbors denied pushing Pearson down during an interview with police.
