Disgusting Hate Crime: Man Knocks Out Elderly Man Because He Is Black

The Department of Justice Friday released cell phone video recorded by Conrad Barrett, the so-called "knock out guy," who was convicted of a hate crime for punching an elderly black man in the face.
"I have to step up the courage," Barrett says in the video moments before the attack. "For about a week now, I have been unable to go through with the plan," he says. "The plan is to see if I hit an elderly black person would this be televised nationally?"
The video was a central part of the case to convict Barrett, who was recently sentenced by a federal judge in Houston to 71 months in prison.
The attack took place outside a shopping mall on Thanksgiving weekend in 2013 and left the victim, identified in court papers as a 79-year-old black man who has the initials R.C., with a broken jaw and missing teeth.

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