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They caught the alt-right bastards.
Sikh man beaten, hair forcibly cut in California attack
A California Sikh man’s turban was knocked off his head and his hair cut off in a beating Bay Area Sikhs are calling a hate crime.
The Sikh Coalition sent a letter to prosecutors and police on Friday asking them to investigate the Sept. 25 attack on Maan Singh Khalsa for enhanced charges under state hate crimes laws.
A group of men in Richmond punched Khalsa in the face, yelled, “Cut his f---ing hair,” and pulled his head out of his car to cut off a fistful of his religiously-mandated unshorn hair, according to the coalition. Khalsa, a 41-year-old IT worker, was hospitalized and may lose part of a finger.
The attackers “intentionally targeted his articles of faith when they knocked off his turban and deliberately cut his unshorn hair with a knife,” the Sikh Coalition said. “Targeting a Sikh’s turban and hair is analogous to targeting a Jew’s yarmulke or a Muslim’s hijab.”
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Sikh man beaten, hair forcibly cut in California attack
A California Sikh man’s turban was knocked off his head and his hair cut off in a beating Bay Area Sikhs are calling a hate crime.
The Sikh Coalition sent a letter to prosecutors and police on Friday asking them to investigate the Sept. 25 attack on Maan Singh Khalsa for enhanced charges under state hate crimes laws.
A group of men in Richmond punched Khalsa in the face, yelled, “Cut his f---ing hair,” and pulled his head out of his car to cut off a fistful of his religiously-mandated unshorn hair, according to the coalition. Khalsa, a 41-year-old IT worker, was hospitalized and may lose part of a finger.
The attackers “intentionally targeted his articles of faith when they knocked off his turban and deliberately cut his unshorn hair with a knife,” the Sikh Coalition said. “Targeting a Sikh’s turban and hair is analogous to targeting a Jew’s yarmulke or a Muslim’s hijab.”
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