Woman gets probation in 2020 attack on Spanish-speaking women in East Boston

[marmar]

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts woman charged with attacking a mother and daughter for speaking Spanish in 2020 has been found guilty of misdemeanor assault and battery.

Stephanie Armstrong was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation following a two-day, non-jury trial in Boston Municipal Court in the majority Latino East Boston neighborhood where the attack took place.

Prosecutors say Armstrong and another woman assaulted a mother and her teenage daughter outside a subway station because they believed the two were making fun of them in Spanish.

Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden, whose office prosecuted the case, said he was pleased Armstrong was convicted of assault, but found it "terribly disappointing" she wasn't also convicted of civil rights violations, which was the other charge the pair faced. ..........(more)

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/stephanie-armstrong-probation-attack-spanish-speaking-women-2020-east-boston/

[Duppers]

1. SMH.

[llashram]

2. following SCOTUS

and our civil protections from magrats will be out the window soon. If I wanted to speak say Swahili, I guess I'm screwed if attacked for not speaking 'merikkkan

[duckworth969]

3. Assailants bit their victims

What the hell!? You can bite someone you assault and only get probation. Unbelievable…