TELLS VIETNAMESE FAMILY TO “GO BACK TO CHINA”
On April 3, 2024, JS pleaded guilty a “one federal hate crime count.”
Apparently, as GN, who is Vietnamese, was outside of a post office with his family, JS approached the group, yelled that they should “go back to China,” threatened to kill them, and then proceeded to drive his car into GN causing the latter serious “bodily injury and pain.”
In a written statement, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division noted that “This defendant’s hate-filled attack not only seriously injured the victim, but also traumatized three children in his family, solely because they were Asian American …. No person in this country should have to fear for their own or their family’s safety because of who they are or where they are from. The Justice Department is determined to stem the rising tide of hate crimes and will vigorously prosecute those who commit them.”
JS is scheduled to be sentenced on June 26.
No gold star for him. (Think he'll hate that?)
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