A white Houston-area white man was arrested Thursday on federal hate crimes charges for allegedly shooting video of himself sucker-punching a 79-year-old black man in a "knockout game"-style attack.

Conrad Alvin Barrett, 27, made a brief appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Frances Stacy, who scheduled a detention hearing for the Katy man on Friday.

According to prosecutors, the attack happened Nov. 24 in Katy, but it wasn't until 12 days later that authorities connected the attack to the cellphone video of it.

Authorities learned of the case because Barrett allegedly showed the video on the night of the attack to an off-duty arson investigator he had just met at a restaurant in nearby Folshear. According to the criminal complaint, Barrett asked the off-duty investigator and the woman with the investigator if they knew about the knockout game. He told them he played earlier that day, then showed them the video, prosecutors allege.

The investigator then flagged down a uniformed officer across the street and led him to Barrett.

The attack video doesn't show Barrett's face, but investigators matched his voice to the voice in the video and the couple at the restaurant told investigators that Barrett was wearing the same shorts and shoes at the person who shot the video.

According to prosecutors, the video shows Barrett approach the victim and ask, "How's it going, man?" A "loud smack" is then heard, the victim falls to the ground, Barrett laughs and says, "Knockout." The assailant then flees in his vehicle.

The victim lost three teeth and needed surgery to repair his jaw, which had been broken in two places. He was hospitalized for more than four days, authorities said.

Investigators retrieved other videos from Barrett's phone, including some in which he uses racial epithets and talks about trying to work up the courage to play the knockout game, the complaint states. In one, Barrett says: "That plan is to see if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?"

U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said Thursday that such crimes won't be tolerated.

"Evidence of hate crimes will be vigorously investigated and prosecuted with the assistance of all our partners to the fullest extent of the law," Magidson said.

Barrett's attorney, George Parnham, said Barrett has bipolar disorder and has been prescribed heavy medications to treat it. He said Barrett's family "feels horribly sympathetic" for the person who was attacked.

"When you start peeling back the layers of the onion and look at the mindset behind the action you soon realize there's a mental issue," said Parnham, who added that he's trying to gather as much information about Barrett's mental health as possible.

If convicted of the hate crime charge, Barrett could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and fined up to $250,000.

sounds similar to LAshaen MArten, black man in nyc who hit a white man and was charged with a hate crime, also reported that he was mentally disturbed,,,,,details should be interesting,,,

from FBI Website: (regarding hate crimes)

◾There were 5,790 single-bias incidents. Of these, 48.3 percent were motivated by racial bias, 19.6 percent were motivated by sexual-orientation bias, 19.0 percent were motivated by religious bias, and 11.5 percent were motivated by ethnicity/national origin bias. Bias against disabilities accounted for 1.6 percent of single-bias incidents. There were six multiple-bias hate crime incidents reported in 2012.

◾Of the 5,331 known offenders, 54.6 percent were white and 23.3 percent were black. The race was unknown for 11.5 percent, and other races accounted for the remaining known offenders.

I'm sure they charge maybe 1 out of 1000 blacks with a hate crime but if your a honkey its 1/1

lol, why are you so 'sure', the numbers were provided above

54.6 percent of 5331 is roughly 2991 white offenders
23.3 percent of 5331 is roughly 1242 black offenders

2991/244,606,000 is more like (less than)1 per 100000 for white people

1242/40,000,000 is more like 3 per 100,000 for black people

hate crimes are pretty rare, in any race

so disgusting...I'd let the old man have one whack with a baseball bat to the young fella's naked *** and give the young man the video to show all his friends...why I'm not a cop...growing up some of my friends had a nite out shooting out car windows with a pellet gun...when caught the officer gave them the choice of shooting all the windows out in their cars or arresting them...good lesson as all involved never broke the law again...

it really is senseless and disgusting, I agree

mental illness needs to be more seriously addressed too

people need to speak up,, not about others voicing opinions of what they like or dislike , but about people who express delight in physical harm of others

I think its the idea that others will support or let it go unaddressed gives people more 'courage' to do such things

I remember being in a room full of forest conservation trainees and a group of kids were talking about going into town to 'gay bash',, I don't agree with the liftestyle, but I find it disgusting the idea of harming someone because of their choice of lifestyle,,,, and I was one of maybe two young people who stood up and said something to that group in front of everyone


I don't think they went into town after all,,, people need to speak up,,,,(when its safe to do so at least)

I do not know, everybody latches on to 'mental illness' for their abhorrent behavior so much I think it is just a cop out...

EXACTLY

IF you knew me you know Im no fan of the field of psychology

but I do believe there are people with genuine physiological deformities of the brain which impact their logic, conscience,,,,etc,,,

we've been through this already... the white people are mexican and middle eastern...

and that would mean even FEWER percentage of white people were recorded as hate crime offenders,,,

proving the point that its rare and that its rare in all races, and that whites aren't persecuted anymore heavily than blacks,,,

thats not what the article was saying... i know your not forgetting it's all political based crap anyway, as in who wants what demographic vote...

If a black person did this exact same thing to a white person, and they provided all this evidence, they would also be charged with a hate crime.

a black man, lashan marten DID do the same to a white man and was charged with hate crime