MONROE COUNTY, Mich. — A white man is accused of hitting a black man in the face with a bicycle chain in what authorities allege was a racially motivated assault at a southeastern Michigan beach.
The Monroe News reports that 42-year-old Lee James Mouat Jr., of Newport, Michigan, remains jailed on charges of felony assault and ethnic intimidation.
Monroe County sheriff’s Maj. Jeff Kemp says the assault happened after a group of white people and a group of black people exchanged words Saturday at a beach in Frenchtown Township.
Kemp says Mouat used a racial slur before hitting the victim with a locking device for bicycles that he had retrieved from his car.
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