The tables are slowly turning.
Via Cleveland Com:
A suspected gang member was arrested early Thursday in connection with an August incident in which he is accused of punching a 51-year-old woman in what police called a hate crime.
Jermaine Hines Jr., 24, was arrested about 2 a.m. Thursday. Police have not released information regarding the circumstances surrounding his arrest. He will be held in the Cleveland City Jail until his first court appearance on Friday.
Hines is charged with ethnic intimidation, a fifth-degree felony.
Hines attacked the woman “simply because she was white,” according to court records. The woman does not know Hines, who a detective said in court records is affiliated with an unnamed street gang.
The woman “is in constant fear because (Hines) has been seen walking around her neighborhood, and she fears he will attack her or some other person simply because of the color of their skin,” court records say.
The attack happened about 5:45 p.m. Aug. 21 in the 2900 block of Archwood Avenue in the city’s Brooklyn Centre neighborhood.
Hines walked up to the woman without saying anything and punched her, knocking her to the ground, police said. The attack was entirely unprovoked, court records say.
Hines then yelled at the woman and accused her of being in the Ku Klux Klan. He also said she was a “white supremacist,” according to police. The woman told police she had no affiliation to the KKK or any white supremacist group, according to police reports.