When he heard a neighbor at the Adagio apartment complex in Draper yell a racial slur at his son, Mike Waldvogel said, he was shocked.
He dashed outside in his bare feet to get the 7-year-old, who had been riding his scooter in a courtyard.
The shouting, which by then was coming from inside an apartment, picked up as he walked by and Mark Olic Porter walked onto his patio, Waldvogel said. He started to tell Porter that he didn’t care what he said when he was inside but he was not to talk to his son that way.