A 64-year-old woman from Chicago's western suburbs is facing hate crime charges and accused of assaulting a Palestinian-American couple in a video that went viral. Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, of Darien,

A woman has been accused of a hate crime after she allegedly targeted a man wearing a "Palestine" sweatshirt at an Illinois Panera Bread, authorities said. Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, was at a Panera in Downers Grove,

I’m a born and raised American who took his wife out for lunch. I was not able to do that simply because I was Palestinian.”

An Illinois woman is charged with hate crimes after, authorities alleged, she attacked a man for wearing a Palestine hoodie at a suburban Chicago Panera Bread over the weekend.

Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, of Darien, Illinois, was charged with two felony hate crime counts and one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Police said Szustakiewicz confronted and yelled expletives at a man "regarding his sweatshirt with 'Palestine' written on it.

Authorities say a suburban Chicago woman faces hate crime charges for allegedly confronting a Palestinian man wearing a sweatshirt with "Palestine" written on it and trying to knock a cellphone out of his pregnant wife's hands as she recorded the encounter.

An Illinois woman is charged with hate crimes after, authorities alleged, she attacked a man for wearing a Palestine hoodie at a suburban Chicago Panera Bread over the weekend.

An Illinois woman has been accused of a hate crime after she allegedly targeted a man wearing a "Palestine" sweatshirt at Panera Bread, authorities said.

Just before noon, Downers Grove police responded to a disturbance call at Panera Bread in the 7000 block of Lemont Road. Police said Szustakiewicz confronted and yelled expletives