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Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy and Officer Sam Lenda recall the shooting at the Oak Creak, Wisconsin, Gurdwara in August (source: CBS News)

Oak Creek, WI, officers recall day of shooting

November 14, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

On the CBS Evening News, Oak Creek Police Lieutenant Brian Murphy and Officer Sam Lenda describe the events during the shooting rampage at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in August. Lt. Murphy offers several reflections, including about the shooter who took his own life: “He’s dead. He’s nothin’. The people who remain, the people who carry on, that’s what’s important,” he said. View the video and read more at CBS News.

Categories: Hate Crimes, News Bits • Tags: CBS Evening News, hate crimes, Lt. Brian Murphy, Oak Creek, Officer Sam Lenda, shootings, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

Oak Creek, WI, police officer Lt. Brian Murphy speaks about Gurdwara shooting

October 30, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

In an extended interview, Oak Creek police officer Lt. Brian Murphy, who was shot 12 times by the attacker in August’s shooting at the Gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, talks about what happened the day of the attack and life since: “People always ask me, do you flash back, do you have nightmares,” Murphy says. “My answer is no. I have none of that. I’m lucky and I touch wood. I’m very fortunate that way. But what I do look […]

Categories: Hate Crimes • Tags: Gurdwara, Lt. Brian Murphy, Oak Creek, shooting, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

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Picture of the Day: WI Sikhs hold vigil for victims of another shooting

October 23, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Over the weekend and almost two months after the shooting attack, another vigil was held at the Gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to pray for the victims of another mass shooting in the area, this time at a salon in nearby Brookfield: Arriving at the staging area, near Brookfield Square Mall, involved “a lot of dejavu,” [Pardeep] Kaleka said. “It just brought back the flood of memories of what happened that day,” he said. “That waiting around to see what […]

Categories: Picture of the Day • Tags: Brookfield, Brookfield Square Mall, Oak Creek, Palmeet Kaur Rathor, Pardeep Kaleka, shootings, Wisconsin

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Picture of the Day: The pain and resilience of the Oak Creek’s Sikhs

October 22, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Adam Morris, a photographer for MilwaukeeMag.com, shares his photos of the survivors of the shooting at the Gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin in August: Look at their faces. Look into their eyes. You’ll see pain, heartbreak and weariness. But you’ll also see resilience and, in some instances, even defiance. Family members, survivors, priests and temple leaders stared unflinchingly into the camera’s lens. Here they were – and are and will continue to be – in a sacred space where they […]

Categories: Hate Crimes, Picture of the Day • Tags: Adam Morris, hate crimes, MilwaukeeMag.com, Oak Creek, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

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Fourth WI shooting victim, Punjab Singh, released from hospital

October 17, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Punjab Singh, the fourth and last remaining hospitalized victim of the Oak Creek, Wisconsin shooting, has been released from hospital: MILWAUKEE – A Sikh priest injured in an August shooting rampage at his Milwaukee-area temple has been transferred from the hospital to a long-term care facility. The family of Punjab Singh said in a statement Wednesday that he still requires around-the-clock care. They say they’ve made arrangements to transfer him to a health facility where he’ll receive that care. Singh […]

Categories: Hate Crimes • Tags: hate crimes, Oak Creek, Punjab Singh, Wisconsin

When a Sikh runs: the irony of California’s 9th Congressional District

October 17, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Tonight, I attended the 100th Anniversary of the local Sikh temple in #Stockton. Congratulations to the community. It was an honor to attend — Jerry McNerney (@RepMcNerney) October 14, 2012 During last Saturday’s celebrations to celebrate the Centennial of the Stockton, California, Gurdwara, in addition to having the opportunity to listen to Ricky Gill (Republican candidate for California’s 9th Congressional District) speak, I also was interested to hear the congratulatory words offered to the Sikh community by Representative Jerry McNerney, […]

Categories: Politics • Tags: California, California 9th Congressional District, Jerry McNerney, Oak Creek, Ricky Gill, Stockton Gurdwara Centennial Celebration, Stockton Gurdwara Sahib, Wisconsin

Picture of the Day: UPenn Sikhs reach out

October 9, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

The Penn Sikh Organization is featured in The Daily Pennsylvanian as this campus group of Sikhs reaches out to their broader community: Outside Bodek Lounge there is a pile of shoes — inside, a group of barefoot students. Some are wearing turbans, others are wearing bandanas. Some have beards, others are clean shaven. All are participating in a langar, or community meal, to commemorate the six Sikhs that were murdered in the Wisconsin temple shooting this past August. As students […]

Categories: Picture of the Day • Tags: Amrit Kaur Bhinder, Oak Creek, Penn Sikh Organization, University of Pennsylvania, UPenn, Wisconsin

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A recent Facebook conversation joking about using hate crimes as a response to violence in the Middle East.

Living post-eight-five

September 27, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Recently, I was engaged in a polite online conversation with a friend about the attacks on the US embassies in Libya and Egypt, when a third person interjected to proclaim that the Middle East should be “taken over” and bombed (as if not already happening in several places in the region, but commentary on this is beyond the purview of this blog). The conversation ended when this individual then indicated that he was “ready to commit some hate crimes” as […]

Categories: Hate Crimes, Reflections • Tags: Balbir Singh Sodhi, Japanese internment, Libya, Oak Creek, Wisconsin

Harpeet Singh Saini testifies at a US Senate hearing about the mass shooting that took his mother during the 2012 Oak Creek Gurdwara mass shooting in Wisconsin. Photo: C-SPAN

Thoughts on the US Senate hearing on hate violence

September 21, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

On Wednesday, as many had, I watched the webcast of the US Senate hearing “Hate Crimes and the Threat of Domestic Extremism” in which testimony was given by various government agencies and representatives of points of view in relation to hate violence. Among those providing testimony was Harpreet Singh Saini, one of the sons (his brother Kamaljit Singh Saini was also in attendance) of victim Paramjit Kaur, who was killed in the shooting rampage at the Gurdwara in Oak Creek, […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Events, Hate Crimes, Politics • Tags: Daryl Johnson, Dick Durbin, extremism, FBI Hate Crime Statistics, Harpreet Singh Saini, hate crimes, Hate Crimes & the Threat of Domestic Extremism, Herb Kohl, Kamaljit Singh Saini, Oak Creek, Paramjit Kaur, Richard Blumenthal, Wisconsin

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Considering the experience of Sikhs in America.

Tag: Wisconsin

Oak Creek, WI, officers recall day of shooting

Oak Creek, WI, police officer Lt. Brian Murphy speaks about Gurdwara shooting

Picture of the Day: WI Sikhs hold vigil for victims of another shooting

Picture of the Day: The pain and resilience of the Oak Creek’s Sikhs

Fourth WI shooting victim, Punjab Singh, released from hospital

When a Sikh runs: the irony of California’s 9th Congressional District

Picture of the Day: UPenn Sikhs reach out

Living post-eight-five

Thoughts on the US Senate hearing on hate violence