A man was arrested Friday on assault and hate crime charges after a road rage incident in Oakland, police said.
The investigation began when a video circulating on social media showed a driver, identified as 61-year-old Tracy Robert Blackwell of Newark, yelling racial slurs at another driver on southbound Interstate 880 near Hegenberger Road.
The video was recorded on Tuesday at around 4 p.m.
At one point, the video shows Blackwell intentionally ramming the victim’s car before losing control and crashing into the freeway shoulder, police said.
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He was arrested around 12 p.m. Friday and booked into the Alameda County Jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon with hate crime enhancements, police said.
