A former elementary school teacher has been charged with bias-motivated assault after he allegedly posed as a police officer to target gay men at a park in Washington . Michael Thomas Pruden, 48, is accused of spraying five men with pepper spray after dark at Meridian Hill Park, also known as Malcolm X Park, known as a 'cruising' spot Pruden pretended to be a police officer before assaulting the men in separate occasions from 2018 to 2021, the Department of Justice alleged in an indictment.
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