Police in the US state of Oregon have charged a white man with hate crimes for brutally assaulting a Sikh employee at a convenience store on Monday for refusing to sell him cigarette rolling papers without seeing his identity papers. Andrew Ramsey, 24, had assaulted Harwinder Dodd, the store clerk, for his religion, according to court documents cited by local media outlets.One of the charges is intimidation in the second degree, a misdemeanour hate crime. He started “pulling on (Dodd’s) beard and just started punching him in the face, and he pulled him to the ground and started kicking him”. Brecht saw Dodd “bleeding, he had gotten punched quite a bit in the face, and kicked on the ground and thrown to the ground very brutally. The assailant also threw a shoe at Dodd, according to police, and tried to grab his turban.

Source: Hindustan Times January 20, 2019 15:56 UTC