chanel
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Sorrow, anger and fear of ethnic persecution have permeated the South Asian community in Old Bridge where residents are struggling for answers to why a respected Indian scientist was savagely beaten to death outside his home last weekend.
Divyendu Sinha, a 49-year-old scientist and professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, died Monday morning after he and his two sons were attacked while going for a walk in Old Bridge last week.
Three 17-year-olds have been charged with Sinhas slaying, but as the investigation continues little is known about what drove Sinhas attackers to make him a target.
Police maintain that there was no indication of bias in Sinhas death, but ethnic tension has quickly risen to the surface in the town of 70,000.
Though Old Bridge is predominantly white, the Indian population has been growing steadily over the past 20 years and represents six percent of the population, according to 2008 data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
On Tuesday the more than 200 members of the South Asian community told stories of intimidation and harassment including being spit at and having trash thrown on them from passing cars incidents they say they experience on a day-to-day basis in the community.
Fatal beating of Old Bridge man highlights harassment of South Asian community | NJ.com
They won't give the names of the assailants because they are juveniles. However, according to several comments on the article, the perps were BLACK and this may have been a gang initiation.
How can a reporter write an article about "ethnic tension" on "Asians", in a "predominantly white area" without mentioning the race of the murderers? How dishonest is that?
This shit has got to stop.