Final defendant given 7 years in prison in beating on Facebook Live of Chicago teen with mental disabilities
by Rosemary Sobol, Chicago Tribune
Jul 26, 2018
2 minutes
CHICAGO - Cook County Judge William Hooks turned in his chair and pointed to a black-and-white photograph of civil rights icon Ida B. Wells hanging on the wall behind him.
Hooks was about to sentence Tesfaye Cooper, the fourth and final defendant convicted in the beating of a teen with mental disabilities in an attack livestreamed on Facebook.
Wells understood the horrific nature of torture, the judge
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