A D.C. man pleaded guilty Thursday to assaulting three adults of Chinese descent who were walking down a street in the Glover Park area of Washington, D.C., the…
Highlights
- Patrick Trebat, 39, pleaded guilty to three counts of simple assault, including one with a hate-bias enhancement.
- Trebat attacked a man, a woman and their adult son because they appeared to be from another country and spoke a language Trebat didn’t understand.
- A judge sentenced Trebat to 630 days in jail with all but 210 days suspended on the condition that Trebat completes three years of supervised probation.
- The family was walking near the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Fulton Street NW and speaking in a Chinese dialect the morning of Aug.
- 7, 2021, when Trebat began shouting profanities at them, the U.S.
- Attorney’s Office said.