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The four African-American people accused of terrorizing and beating a white, mentally disabled man in Chicago and streaming footage of the disturbing incident online were charged with hate crimes Thursday, according to local authorities.

Jordan Hill, 18, of Carpentersville, Ill., and Tesfaye Cooper, 18, Brittany Covington, 18, and Tanishia Covington, 24, all of Chicago, face charges of aggravated kidnapping, hate crime, aggravated unlawful restraint and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

Hill also faces charges of robbery, residential burglary and possession of a stolen motor vehicle while Cooper and Brittany Covington are also charged with residential burglary, the newspaper reported, citing the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

The four suspects allegedly held an 18-year-old special-needs man hostage and tortured him in an apartment on the West Side of the city, streaming the horrific ordeal on Facebook Live.

“There was never a question whether or not this incident qualified to be investigated as a hate crime, but as I said yesterday we needed to base the investigation based on facts and not emotion,” Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson said a press conference Thursday.

Police officials said Thursday that the victim was friends with one of his attackers, Jordan Hill, and knew him from a school they both attended in Aurora, Ill..

On New Year’s Eve the victim’s parents dropped their son off at a McDonald’s in the Chicago suburb of Streamwood and he was supposed to spend the night with Hill.

Hill stole a van in the suburbs and drove the victim into the city, officials said.

For the next two days, the victim slept in the van, unaware that it was stolen, and on Tuesday the victim and Hill went to the Covington sisters’ apartment, where the crime was committed, said Chicago Area North Detectives Commander Kevin Duffin.

Several hours later, what started out as a “play fight” escalated between Hill and the victim, Duffin said.

The victim can be seen in the horrific half-hour video bound and gagged as his attackers beat him and cut his scalp with a knife.

In the video, in which the victim can be seen cowering in the corner on the floor, someone is heard urging the victim to say, “I love black people.”

“F–k Donald Trump, n—a, f–k white people!” one of the suspects can be heard telling the man in the video, which was live streaming for roughly 30 minutes.

Another video shows the victim being forced to drink toilet water.

The victim, a resident of Crystal Lake, was bound for up to five hours and was “able to escape when a downstairs neighbor calls the police complaining of all the noise.”

After the police were called to the scene, the Covington sisters kicked in the door of the downstairs neighbor, Duffin said.

“That gives our victim an opportunity to get out,” Duffin said.

Speaking on why the incident was classified as a hate crime, Duffin said, “the racial slurs, the deference to his mental capacity.”

All four suspects are expected to appear in bond court Friday.

The victim was reported missing by his parents on Monday.

On Wednesday, Duffin was hesitant to peg the attack a hate crime, drawing the ire of some social media users.

“Although they’re young adults, they’re 18. Kids make stupid decisions,” said Duffin at a Wednesday press conference on the incident. “I shouldn’t call them kids. They’re legally adults, but they’re young adults and they make stupid decisions.”