Two white men in Manchester, Connecticut were arrested Monday (June 22) after being accused of chasing down three Black teenagers riding their bicycles as one of the men hurled racial slurs at them.
Matthew Lemelin, 27, and his brother Michael, 28, were taken into custody and now face charges of risk of injury to a minor and reckless endangerment, NBC News reports.
According to Manchester police, officers responded to a report of a car that attempted to hit someone on a bicycle and the theft of a bicycle from a pedestrian.
The teenagers said to police that they were followed while riding their bikes and a car with two men riding in it tried to run them off the road.
According to Manchester Police Lt. Ryan Shea, the incident was investigated as a hate crime.
