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,

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.

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,

An Illinois woman is charged with hate crimes after allegedly attacking a man for wearing a Palestine hoodie at a suburban Chicago Panera Bread over the weekend.

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.”

A verbal and physical attack occurred at a Downers Grove Panera over a sweatshirt supporting Palestine, with a woman slapping Waseem Zahran and throwing coffee on him and his pregnant wife. Zahran says the unprovoked attack began after the woman objected to his Palestinian-themed hoodie, leading to a chaotic confrontation caught on video.

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

A woman is facing hate crime charges after an incident Saturday at a Panera Bread in Downers Grove. Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, of Darien, was charged with two felony hate crime charges and disorderly conduct after police responded to a disturbance Saturday at Panera Bread,