{"id":107896,"date":"2024-11-19T00:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/woman-allegedly-targets-man-in-palestine-sweatshirt-at-panera-charged-with-hate-crime\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T00:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:03:53","slug":"woman-allegedly-targets-man-in-palestine-sweatshirt-at-panera-charged-with-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/woman-allegedly-targets-man-in-palestine-sweatshirt-at-panera-charged-with-hate-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman allegedly targets man in &#8216;Palestine&#8217; sweatshirt at Panera, charged with hate crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-18\/News_Alexandra%20Szustakiewicz_111824.png\" alt><figcaption>DuPage County State\u2019s Attorney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(CHICAGO) &#8212; A woman has been accused of a hate crime after she allegedly targeted a man wearing a &#8220;Palestine&#8221; sweatshirt at an Illinois Panera Bread, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, was at a Panera in Downers Grove, a Chicago suburb, around noon on Saturday when she saw a man wearing a sweatshirt that said &#8220;Palestine&#8221; on it, the DuPage County State\u2019s Attorney&#8217;s Office said. She allegedly confronted him and started yelling expletives, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>When a woman who was with the man started taking video of the confrontation, Szustakiewicz allegedly tried to hit the phone out of the woman&#8217;s hand, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Szustakiewicz, a Darien resident, was taken into custody the next day and is accused of committing &#8220;a hate crime by reason of perceived national origin,&#8221; prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This type of behavior is not and will never be tolerated in our community,&#8221; Downers Grove Chief of Police Michael DeVries said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Downers Grove is about 23 miles west of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every member of society, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation or any other individual characteristic, deserves to be treated with respect and civility,&#8221; DuPage County State\u2019s Attorney Robert Berlin added.<\/p>\n<p>Szustakiewicz made her first court appearance on Monday on two counts of hate crime and one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>She is next due in court on Dec. 16.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DuPage County State\u2019s Attorney (CHICAGO) &#8212; A woman has been accused of a hate crime after she allegedly targeted a man wearing a &#8220;Palestine&#8221; sweatshirt at an Illinois Panera Bread, authorities said. Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, was at a Panera in Downers Grove, a Chicago suburb, around noon on Saturday when<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/woman-allegedly-targets-man-in-palestine-sweatshirt-at-panera-charged-with-hate-crime\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}