Professor Charged In Hate Crime In Grocery Store Parking Resigns

OAK PARK, IL — An Oak Park man charged with a hate crime last month has resigned from his job as a professor at a Lombard university.

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Alberto Friedmann, 53, taught neurokinesiology at the National University of Health Sciences for years before resigning on Sept. 22. The man gave up his job just before the school could complete an investigation into the circumstances of his arrest, a spokesman for the university said.

Friedmann was charged with a hate crime and aggravated assault after prosecutors said he yelled racial slurs and spit at a Black woman outside a grocery store. He is also accused of attempting to hit the woman with his car during the Sept. 7 incident.

As of Tuesday, no reference to Friedmann can be found anywhere on the university's website. He is still a fellow with the Royal Society of Medicine in London, but a spokesperson said Wednesday they are "closely monitoring" the outcome of Friendmann's case.