Milwaukee prosecutors are charging a sixty one year old man with a hate crime after allegedly tossed battery acid on the face of a Hispanic man the hate crime decision allows prosecutors to seek an enhanced sentence against Clifton Blackwell if he's convicted of first degree reckless injury prosecutors say Blackwell confronted a Hispanic man over the way he parks near a restaurant throwing acid on him and accusing him of being in the country illegally also asking him why he was invading the country the victim was born in Peru but is a U. S. citizen Ribeiro ABC