Sikh bus driver says police didn't recognize hate crime
Source: Associated Press
Sikh bus driver says police didn't recognize hate crime
Amanda Lee Myers, Associated Press
Updated 8:48 pm, Thursday, January 14, 2016
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California bus driver wearing a turban was called a suicide bomber during an attack that left him hospitalized, but officers failed to recognize the assault as a hate crime, a Sikh advocacy group representing the man said Thursday.
Balwinder Jit Singh, 56, had just pulled over the Metro bus he was driving in Inglewood on Nov. 6 when a passenger attacked him, said Gurjot Kaur, Singh's lawyer and a senior staff attorney with the New York-based Sikh Coalition.
The attacker beat Singh while saying he was a terrorist and a suicide bomber and had hijacked the bus, Kaur said.
She said Singh was left with a black eye, his face and jaw were bruised and swollen, and his eye got infected. Now two months later, he said he has blurred vision and pain.
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