Robert Tackett, a 54-year-old Irvine man, has been charged with attacking two Hispanic men in hate motivated attacks, throwing a cup of hot coffee on one man while driving and getting out of his van to punch an elderly driver repeatedly at a stop light while hurling racial slurs.
Tackett has been charged with one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, one felony count of violation of civil rights, one felony count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, and one felony count of inflicting injury on an elder adult.
He faces a maximum sentence of eight years in state prison if convicted on all counts. He is currently being held at the Orange County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail…