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A Chicago man who was seen last year in a widely viewed video berating a woman in a city park for wearing a T-shirt with the Puerto Rican flag was convicted this week on two felony hate crime charges.

A Cook County jury found the man, Timothy Trybus, 63, guilty Wednesday after deliberating for 3 1/2 hours at the 2nd Municipal District Skokie Courthouse in Skokie, Illinois.

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Trybus could face up to five years in prison on Oct. 21, when he is sentenced for his role in the June 14, 2018, episode, in which he repeatedly asked the woman, Mia Irizarry, if she was an American citizen and demanded to know why she was wearing a shirt with the Puerto Rican flag.

In a video of the confrontation, which Irizarry streamed on Facebook Live, Trybus told her, “You are not going to change us, you know that, right?” as he walked up to her.

“Are you a United States citizen? Then you should not be wearing that,” he said to Irizarry, who noted in the video that she was in Caldwell Woods setting up for a birthday party and said that she had paid for a permit.