He said the man was wearing a mask that covered the lower half of his face. The Sikh Coalition, a national civil rights group, asked local and federal authorities to investigate the shooting in suburban Seattle as a hate crime. We haven’t seen a hate crime happening at this level.”Kaur said she had arranged for Kent’s police chief to talk to the community on Saturday about their concerns on immigration and the role of local police officers. “When someone says ‘get out of my country’ it’s a hate crime, there’s no question,” Kaur said. In 2012, a man shot and killed six worshippers and wounded four others at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee, before killing himself.

Source: The Guardian March 05, 2017 17:07 UTC