Donald Corsi, Howard Hughes Arrested After Black Teen Films Viral Vids of Attack in Sanford, Florida

Two white men were arrested in Florida this week and charged with racism after allegedly throwing a large stone at a black teenager’s car. in the same town Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012.

“I was racist while driving through my friends neighborhood,” the victim, who identified himself as JJ, wrote on Instagram Wednesday. “They didn’t like the way I was driving, so they felt the need to hit my car with the clutch and throw a rock through my window. All I want to do is de-escalate until the police arrive, because I don’t want to be accused without reason. “

According to Seminole County records, Donald Eugene Corsi, 52, and Howard Oral Hughes, 61, were arrested Wednesday. They were first identified by sluth on social media @ThatDaneshGuy. Corsi faces charges of causing property damage and launching a weapon into a vehicle. Hughes has been charged with property damage and one misdemeanor battery charge. Since then, both men have been released from Seminole prison.

In a video originally posted on Facebook Tuesday, a man claiming to be JJ’s father, CJ Jonessaid, “This is a video my son took while calling 911.… And as you can see them [admit] to have a gun. “

In the video, a man in a blue shirt stands with his hands on his hands, looking at the person holding the camera, believed to be JJ. Another man wearing sunglasses walks around a white Mercedes sedan with his phone pointed towards the number plate.

“Right here! Tell me what you did!” shouted the man in the sunglasses.

The camera focuses on the car with a broken window in the back seat of the driver.

“Burn your heart out and race through my damn neighborhood!” man wearing sunglasses shouting at JJ. The man in the blue shirt plays in front of the camera.

“I don’t want to face you,” the man in the blue shirt said after JJ told him to move. “Get out of my neighborhood, you son of a bitch!”

JJ asked the men if they had guns, and one of them said he had a permit to carry them.

After the two men tracked JJ on a residential street, others in the neighborhood came out to check on what was going on.

A woman on the street with a striped scarf wrapped around her waist accused JJ of possessing a gun.

“Get out of this neighborhood!” she la. “You don’t belong here!”

JJ went back to his car and filmed shards of glass on the back seat and a dent in the door.

In a follow-up Live video on Facebook Jones posted Tuesday, he mentioned that the incident happened in the Forest Lake area of ​​Sanford.

“Not far from where Trayvon Martin was killed,” he wrote.

The video shows police arriving at the scene as residents stand outside their homes. Jones said he wanted to go live “just so we have proof, in case something happens to me today here.”

He then turned the camera toward the house where his son was supposed to visit a friend.

“Even as I walked into this neighborhood, I had a few people yell at me,” Jones said.

The Daily Beast was unable to reach Corsi and Hughes on Thursday.