A Florida couple who were captured on video chasing and threatening a Black utility project manager are now facing criminal charges.
According to Newsone, State Attorney Monique Worrell of Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit charged Wiley and Cheryl Ann Pyle with assault with evidence of prejudice, a hate-crime-enhanced offense.
The charges stem from a July incident involving Antavis Johnson, who was going door-to-door in an Orange County neighborhood to notify residents about upcoming utility upgrades. Johnson said the couple became hostile almost immediately after he approached their property, hurling racial slurs, threatening to “hang” him, and pursuing him off their driveway. An officer who responded to the scene told the victim that “no crime was committed.”…