Hindi speakers attacked in Bay Area
Four Hindi speaking residents in the Bay area were attacked in what appears to be a racially motivated crime. [NBC]
The victims appear to be random selected ….
Police said four victims had left a bar and were walking to their car in a parking lot in the 200 block of Castro Street when they were approached by two female suspects.
The two female suspects allegedly approached a female victim and began punching and slapping her.
…. but the attack appears to be planned and coordinated.
When the victim’s husband intervened, a group of four to six male suspects appeared, dragging the husband away from his wife, police said. The suspects then began to punch and kick the husband.
Two other male victims attempted to intervene but were also punched, police said.
The suspects then fled in two different vehicles, according to police.
The scary part is the alleged motive behind the attack.
The suspects harassed the victims, who were speaking Hindi, and made racially charged comments about their ethnicity and the language they were using, police said.
Fortunately, one of the victims got a license plate number which has resulted in some arrests.
Even though the article seems to stress on Hindi, the premise that the victims were selected based of their South Asian appearance cannot be discounted. Hopefully, this is just a random occurrence and not an alarming trend in attacks on South Asians.
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