These booking photos provided by the Chicago Police Department show, from left, Tesfaye Cooper, Brittany Covington, Tanishia Covington and Jordan Hill, four people charged, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, with aggravated kidnapping and taking part in a hate crime after allegedly beating and taunting a man in a video broadcast live on Facebook. (Chicago Police Department via AP)
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CHICAGO (AP) - The Latest on the beating of a white man in Chicago that was broadcast live on Facebook (all times local):
3:45 p.m.
An online effort to raise money for a mentally disabled man whose beating was broadcast live on Facebook in Chicago has brought in nearly $100,000.
The GoFundMe campaign called "Let's show the Chicago victim love" had a goal of $10,000. As of Saturday the account has reached over $92,000.
Four black suspects are facing charges of battery, kidnapping and hate crimes in connection with the attack on the 18-year-old victim. The suspects - two men and two women - are black and the victim is white.
Authorities say the victim was tied up for several hours. Video footage shows the assailants taunting him with profanities against white people and President-elect Donald Trump.
A GoFundMe spokesman confirmed the victim's family is working with the company on the campaign.
The family, through a spokesman, has declined to comment on the attack.
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1 a.m.
A Chicago judge has refused to allow four black people recorded by a cellphone taunting and beating a mentally disabled white youth to leave jail, saying they are accused of such "terrible actions" that they are a danger to society.
Cook County Circuit Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil rebuked them during a Friday court appearance, asking: "Where was your sense of decency?"
The beating of an 18-year-old youth was captured on video by one of the assailants and has since been viewed millions of times on social media. The footage shows the suspects taunting the victim with profanities against white people and President-elect Donald Trump.
They are charged with two counts of committing a hate crime - one because of the victim's race and the other because of his mental disabilities.
Family members of Brittany Covington and Tanishia Covington, left and right, leave the Leighton Criminal Court Building Friday, Dec. 6, 2016 in Chicago. The two women along with two men were ordered held without bond on charges of hate crime, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, in the beating of a mentally disabled white man that appeared on Facebook. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun Times via AP)
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Family members of Brittany Covington and Tanishia Covington, left, and right, leave the Leighton Criminal Court Building Friday, Dec. 6, 2016 in Chicago. The two women along with two men were ordered held without bond on charges of hate crime, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, in the beating of a mentally disabled white man that appeared on Facebook. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun Times via AP)
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Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speaks during a news conference, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, abut the hate crime and other charges filed against four individuals for an attack on a man that was captured on a Facebook video. (James Foster/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
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Family spokesman David Boyd and others hold a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Crystal Lake, Ill., after an 18-year-old man was assaulted in Chicago earlier this week. Four people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet. Boyd is the brother-in-law of the victim. (Patrick Kunzer/Daily Herald via AP)
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Family spokesman David Boyd, right, and others hold a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Crystal Lake, Ill., after an 18-year-old man was assaulted in Chicago earlier this week. Four people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet. Boyd is the brother-in-law of the victim. (Patrick Kunzer/Daily Herald via AP)
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