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Sikh Man Brutally Attacked in US for Refusing to Sell Cigarette Paper Without Seeing ID

IANS, 21 Jan, 2019 09:42 PM

    A Sikh man has been brutally assaulted in an alleged hate crime by a white man who pulled his beard, kicked and punched him in the face at a store in the US, the latest such incident in the country.


    Harwinder Singh Dodd, who was working at a convenience store in the US State of Oregon, was racially targeted on Monday by a 24-year-old Andrew Ramsey.


    Ramsey targeted Mr Dodd because of his perception of the employee's religion, FOX 12 TV news reported, citing a court document.


    Ramsey wanted rolling papers for cigarettes, but did not have an ID and the clerk would not sell them to him, Justin Brecht, a legislative policy adviser in the Oregon State Capitol and a former combat Marine who was present at the store when the incident took place, was quoted as saying by the report.


    When Mr Dodd asked Ramsey to leave, he attacked him by pulling his beard, punching him in the face, pulling him to the ground and kicking him, Mr Brecht said, adding that the people in the store held Ramsey down until officers got there, the report said.


    "He was bleeding, he had gotten punched quite a bit in the face, and kicked on the ground and thrown to the ground very brutally. It was very serious."


    Ramsey has been charged with hate crime and assault, police said, adding that he threw his shoe at Dodd and tried to steal his turban.


    He was also charged with assault in the fourth degree, disorderly conduct and criminal trespass.


    Hate crimes increased by 40 per cent in Oregon from 2016 to 2017, according to the FBI.


    In August 2018, in about a week, two Sikh men were brutally assaulted in the US State of California that raised concerns over increasing incidents of hate crimes in the country.


    Last year, the South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) published a report documenting a 45 per cent increase in hate violence and rhetoric against Indians, Sikhs, and South Asian Americans from the year prior.

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