Bert James Baker, who was convicted of misdemeanor assault in last year’s stabbing of a Palestinian American man, has been sentenced to one year in jail, according to court documents. <\/p>\n
Baker pleaded guilty on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told police in February 2024 that Baker screamed racial slurs at a group of friends who were leaving a pro-Palestinian demonstration. The group said Baker attacked them near the UT Austin campus and stabbed then-23-year-old Zacharia Doar in the chest, breaking his rib. <\/p>\n
Austin Police recommended the case be prosecuted as a hate crime<\/a> to the Travis County District Attorney\u2019s office. But a grand jury <\/a>did not find the case met the criteria. The jury instead handed down an indictment <\/a>charging Baker with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n The 2024 stabbing received national attention, coming after a series of other attacks that seemed to target Palestinian Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bert James Baker, who was convicted of misdemeanor assault in last year’s stabbing of a Palestinian American man,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,41306,41307,41308,11798,41309,4100,41310],"class_list":["post-86207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-police-deparment","tag-bert-james-baker","tag-palestinian-american","tag-stabbing","tag-travis-county-district-attorney","tag-university-of-texas","tag-ut-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}