A 29-year-old Plainfield man is facing two felony hate crime charges after yelling racial slurs at a 9-year-old boy.

Jeffrey Feigenbaum was charged with one count of misdemeanor battery and one count of disorderly conduct, according to a June 15 joint news release from the Naperville Police Department and the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office.

Police responded to a report near 1400 W. Jefferson Ave. of a "White man pushing a Black child and calling him the N-word," officials said.

The boy had been building a fort in the area with friends when a girl, later identified by police as the daughter of Feigenbaum's girlfriend, allegedly damaged it. The boy knocked on the door of the girl's home on West Jefferson Avenue, at which point Feigenbaum allegedly came out, yelled the slur, shoved the child, and threw his bike. The boy fled.

At a court hearing Monday, June 15, in DuPage County, a judge granted Feigenbaum pretrial release with conditions: GPS monitoring, a requirement to stay at least 5,000 feet from the victim, the victim's home, and the victim's school, and surrender of all firearms and ammunition to the Naperville Police Department.

DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin called the allegations "very disturbing" and said hate crimes "have no place in a civilized society."

Naperville residents are responding with questions online to the incident.

"I am curious as to why the kid 'victim' went to the woman's residence, instead of directly to police? Sounds bad yes, but the entire story please," a Facebook user commented.

"I want to know how or why the kid would have provoked him to understand his response," another user commented.

Other residents feel strong emotions on what conspired between Feigenbaum and the boy.

"A grown man yells racial slurs at a 9 year old boy?! That is incredibly disturbing all by itself," one person said on Facebook.

"The fact that he was mad at a NINE YEAR OLD needs to be front and center of the headline," another person said.

Naperville Police Chief Jason Arres said conduct involving threats, physical aggression, and racial slurs directed at a child is "completely unacceptable and stands in direct opposition to the values we expect and uphold in Naperville."

Feigenbaum's next court date is scheduled for Monday, July 13.