Milwaukee County resident William McDonald allegedly focused not less than one Puerto Rican neighbor and eight Black residents in his residence complicated, “willfully injuring, intimidating, or interfering with one other’s housing rights due to their race, coloration, or nationwide origin by power or risk of power,” based on the prison grievance.
The alleged incidents spanned from March 2021 by April 2022, based on the affidavit.
McDonald left threatening and vulgar notes on the windshields of automobiles of neighbors that McDonald perceived to be dashing all through the neighborhood in West Allis, the affidavit mentioned.
Courtroom information point out McDonald has been appointed two attorneys. CNN has reached out to them for remark.
McDonald denied writing the notes, the affidavit states.
In a single occasion, a Black neighbor of McDonald’s acquired not less than two threatening notes below her residence door demanding she transfer out of the residence complicated, the affidavit reads. McDonald’s notes threatened additional harm if the people didn’t transfer out of the neighborhood, based on the court docket doc.
McDonald additionally slashed the tires of a number of victims’ automobiles, based on the affidavit.
Authorities consider McDonald’s alleged actions are in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, and the misdemeanor cost would qualify as a hate crime, the affidavit reads.
Surveillance footage and a visitors cease by which officers obtained private details about McDonald — similar to his handwriting — allowed federal investigators to attach McDonald to the string of incidents, based on the affidavit.
McDonald can’t affiliate with any of the witnesses or victims related to this case; can’t possess a firearm or different weapon; is required to remain at his aunt’s home exterior the neighborhood; and should undergo GPS monitoring, based on the phrases of his launch.