White Supremacy: Racist Newark Man Indicted For Hate Crime For Beating 70-Year-Old Black Man With Wood Plank

Source: Grace Cary / Getty Apparently, being a 70-year-old Black man quietly existing in your own neighborhood was enough to turn one alleged racist into a violent menace. Watt, a 39-year-old white man from Newark, New York, has now been indicted after prosecutors accused him of repeatedly targeting his elderly Black neighbor, Johnny White, with racial slurs and threats before allegedly beating him with a two-by-four. According to Atlanta Black Star, a Wayne County grand jury indicted Watt on second-degree assault as a hate crime in connection with the June 23 attack. Watt pleaded not guilty . . .