A woman was charged with a hate crime after an incident unfolded at a suburban Panera Bread involving a man wearing a Palestine sweatshirt.
The disturbance happened just before noon Saturday at a restaurant in Downers Grove, located at 7361 Lemont Rd., authorities saidA woman has been charged with a hate crime after an incident unfolded over the weekend at a suburban Chicago Panera Bread involving a man wearing a sweatshirt with the word Palestine written on it, officials said.
Szustakiewicz is also accused of hitting a cell phone out of the hands of a woman who was with the man and began recording the encounter. In footage later posted to social media, a woman can be seen in a physical exchange with a man in a"Palestine" sweatshirt, who is heard telling the woman to stop as he pushes her away from his wife. Szustakiewicz threatens to call the police and can be seen asking Panera employees to do so. The beginning of the exchange, however, was not caught on camera.
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