Despite already robbing him of the money he carried in his taxicab, Harbhajan Singh was continually attacked physically while his attackers called him “Osama Bin Laden”.  Police are thus far only treating this as a robbery: Police said the assault and robbery appeared to be an isolated incident and, contrary to some media reports, it is not being investigated as a hate crime. It seems that as long as you attach the hate crime to another crime, you get a free pass on beating an innocent man […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, News Bits • Tags: California, Council on American-Islamic Relations, FBI, Harbhajan Singh, hate crime, robbery, Sacramento, taxicab