In response to grayloon: I knew the officer who said he filed the charge, but he is retired now, and we don't keep in touch. It was when the hate crime legislation was new. After the legislation was passed, I actually never filed a charge involving bias, as I have yet to have facts supporting it when I had a person in custody. (I have taken a few reports involving bias.) I'd bet that the bias enhancement has been used as a bargaining chip, to get a defendant to plea to the basic charge, an especially attractive deal at the level of Class A Misdemeanor Assault being enhanced to a felony. Anyway, I am just a peon with a city PD, and don't know how to get into the county's system to look this up.