What allegedly happened at a Houston bus stop is now being prosecuted as a hate
crime. Four white men are accused of attacking a black man.
Late one night last August, Yondell Johnson was sitting at a bus stop waiting for the bus when he saw four men approach him, throw a few racial epithets around, and attacked.
"It was like I couldn't believe this was happening, and I thought I could be dying especially when they had me on the ground," said Johnson.
On Thursday, Johnson says justice is finally being served because the four suspects -- Charles Cannon, Michael McLaughlin, Brian Kerstetter and Joseph Staggs -- have been indicted on federal hate crime charges, meaning that the motive behind the attack was Johnson's race.
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