Overview

• Mamatov admitted to asking two students if they were Jewish before assaulting them outside a North High Street bar, fracturing one victim’s jaw and breaking another’s nose
• The FBI’s Cincinnati Field Office worked with Ohio State University campus police and the Columbus Division of Police to investigate the attack
• Civil Rights Division trial attorney Cameron Bell and Assistant U.S. Attorney Noah R. Litton prosecuted the case under the federal hate-crime law
• The Hate Crimes Prevention Act allows federal intervention when bias motivates violence against protected groups and carries penalties up to 10 years in prison
• Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon and FBI leaders condemned the antisemitic violence and vowed to enforce hate-crime statutes to safeguard religious freedom