Hate Crime: 79-Year-Old Black Woman Judge Arnette Hubbard Assaulted

Steve Schmadeke of the Chicago Tribune is reporting that Judge Arnette Hubbard, 79, was slapped in the face, spit on and called “Rosa Parks” by an angry white man standing near her at the Daley Center. David C. Nicosia, 55, president of an IT consulting firm, was angry that Judge Hubbard was smoking near him.

Schmadeke writes:

“Cook County prosecutors said Tuesday that Hubbard was outside the Daley Center smoking a cigarette when she walked past David C. Nicosia, 55, who became angry that she was smoking near him.

The two argued and Nicosia, who is white, stepped near her face and said, ‘Rosa Parks, move,’ and spit in her face, prosecutors said. As he walked away, the Law Division judge followed him and called out for assistance.

Nicosia then turned and allegedly slapped the judge on the left side of her face with an open hand, prosecutors said. He was then arrested by sheriff’s deputies and charged with four counts of aggravated battery and a hate crime.

Judge James Brown ordered him held on $90,000 bail Tuesday.”

Read more at The Chicago-Tribune.

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