Four people have been arrested in the US city of Chicago over a video live-streamed on Facebook, in which a bound and gagged man was assaulted.<\/p>\n
The man being assaulted has special needs, police say. His assailants can be heard making derogatory statements against white people and President-elect Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
In one part of the video they use a knife to remove part of his scalp.<\/p>\n
Chicago police have described the video as a “sickening” possible hate crime.<\/p>\n
“It makes you wonder what would make individuals treat somebody like that,” Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said in a press conference streamed on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n “I’ve been a cop for 28 years, and I’ve seen things that you shouldn’t see in a lifetime, but it still amazes me how you still see things that you just shouldn’t.”<\/p>\n Police say the unnamed white victim is an acquaintance of one of the attackers and may have been kidnapped for up to 48 hours prior to the assault.<\/p>\n They say he has been released from hospital after being traumatised by the attack.<\/p>\n In the press conference senior police officers paid tribute to the speedy response of officers in rescuing the stricken man.<\/p>\n In the 30-minute video, the attackers can be seen cutting the 18-year-old victim’s clothes, dropping cigarette ash on him, pushing his head back with a foot and drawing blood by cutting off some of his hair with a knife.<\/p>\n Several people can be seen laughing and smoking as the attack takes place.<\/p>\n The incident happened on Tuesday, police say, in a flat on Chicago’s West Side. Police say they found the victim wandering in the streets in a disorientated and distressed state after the assault.<\/p>\n Later they say they responded to reports of an assault close to where he was discovered and uncovered evidence of violence and damage to property.<\/p>\n Police say the victim was a high-risk missing person and two men and two women are now in custody. One of the women is reported to have broadcast the beating on Facebook.<\/p>\n In June a Chicago man was shot dead while live-streaming a video of himself on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"