Milwaukee police arrested a man suspected of throwing battery acid on a Hispanic man who says his attacker asked him, “Why did you come here and invade my country?”Police said Monday they arrested a 61-year-old white man suspected in Friday night’s attack, but they have not released his name. He said the attack happened after a man confronted him about how he had parked his car and accused him of being in the U.S. illegally. The attack comes amid a spike in hate crimes directed at immigrants that researchers and experts on extremism say is tied to mainstream political rhetoric. You are doing something illegal.” He said the man also accused him of being in the U.S. illegally and of invading the country. He then told the man that he was a citizen and that “everybody came from somewhere else here,” Villalaz said.

Source: thestar November 04, 2019 17:37 UTC