A convicted sex offender was captured on video allegedly hurling the N-word at another driver and ramming their vehicle before he lost control of his Jeep and crashed on a California highway.
Tracy Robert Blackwell, 61, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and given hate crime enhancements following the road rage incident in Oakland that went viral.
A harrowing video originally posted by Instagram user nunu2fyee, which was viewed by the California Highway Patrol, showed a man in a white Jeep giving a middle finger and screaming slurs and obscenities.
The driver then crashed into a wall along the highway during the incident - giving a moment of instant retribution for those subject to his yells.
Blackwell, who has criminal history and a registered sex offender, was arrested and booked in the jail Friday in connection to the viral incident.
A video posted on Instagram was viewed by the California Highway Patrol, showed Tracy Robert Blackwell, 61, in a white Jeep giving the middle finger and screaming slurs
The video went viral online with some social media sleuths connecting his license plate number to records that revealed he was a sex offender
The video showed the man - later identified as Blackwell - yelling at the occupants of another vehicle before he appeared to intentionally ram into the victims' ride.
It was just seconds later when Blackwell lost control of his Jeep and crashed into a wall on the side of the freeway.
The video was recorded on Interstate Highway 880 near Hegenberger Road in Oakland, CHP said.
'At one point during the video, it appeared the driver attempted to intentionally ram the victim's vehicle before losing control and crashing into a wall on the right shoulder of the freeway,' CHP said in a statement.
The video went viral online with some social media sleuths connecting his license plate number to records that revealed he was a sex offender.
The video showed the man appear to intentionally ram into the victims' vehicle and then lose control of his Jeep and crash into a wall on the side of the freeway
Blackwell, a convicted sex offender, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and hate crime enhancements after a video captured a May 16 road rage incident
A search of California's Megan's Law database revealed that Blackwell is a convicted sex offender, which the Alameda County Sheriff's Office confirmed to KRON.
Blackwell was working as a 'furniture repairman contracting his services to department stores' in December 2000 and had a criminal history of drug use and burglary when he was first arrested for sex crimes, the Oakland Tribune reported.
Police were investigating Blackwell because they believed he was stalking a 19-year-old woman and making 'obscene phone calls' to her house.
They then discovered he was in possession of videotapes depicting child sexual abuse.
Blackwell was convicted in 2001 of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14. He was released from jail in 2009 and currently resides in Newark, California.
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