Tesfaye Cooper is a resident of Chicago, Illinois. ^[-1]He is known for being one of the four people who had kidnapped a Austin Hilbourn, tortured him, and harassed him while shouting obscenities about President-elect Donald Trump and white people. ^{[3] [1]}

On Tuesday January 3rd, 2017, Brittany, her sister Tanishia Covington, including her boyfriend Jaenone Eblock, and Tesfaye kidnapped Austin. He is said to have been an acquaintance of the group and they had met with him out in the suburbs. According to Chicago Police, one of the kidnappers attended a school with the victim. ^{[3] [1]}

They kidnapped him in a stolen white van and took him to the West Side of Chicago.

^[3] Once they arrive at an apartment, a bare, minimalist apartment, they begin to torture him, forcing him to drink toilet water.

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Brittany Herring (Covington) then begins to video record almost half an hour of her and her friends harassing and torturing Austin Hilbourn where it was first uploaded on Facebook live. The four of them continually make references to Donald Trump as a way to depict him as a Trump supporter, as they yell: “Fuck white people! Fuck Donald Trump!” Austin is tied up with his mouth shut, and at times appears comatose. The four of them proceed by kicking him repeatedly, smacking him around, and earlier in the video Herring demonstrates one of them slicing off a small chunk of his scalp. ^{[3] [1]}

The incident took place in an apartment on the 3400 block of West Lexington on Chicago’s West Side.

Austin, who has special needs, was a high-risk missing person from northwest suburban Crystal Lake, police say.

Police say he traveled to Carol Stream to meet a friend.

They ended up in a stolen car, driven to the West Side, where the attack took place.

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