A white mother and son in rural Illinois who waged a monthslong campaign of racial harassment and intimidation against their Black next-door neighbor in 2020 must now pay him $90,000 in damages, after a historic ruling found they violated the state’s hate crime law. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office has now tried and won the state’s first civil hate crime lawsuit. Cheryl Hampton, 70, and her son Chad Hampton, 49, who are white, were found by Carroll County Circuit Court Judge Jerry Kane to have engaged in intimidation and disorderly conduct toward their neighbor, Gregory Johnson, who is Black,...
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