Published March 02, 2016
Prosecutors have filed a hate crime allegation against a man accused of attacking a bus driver wearing a turban in California.
Balwinder Jit Singh, who is Sikh, says a passenger beat him while calling him a terrorist and a suicide bomber last year in Inglewood.
District attorney's spokesman Ricardo Santiago says 34-year-old K.C. Tard Jr. has been charged with felony battery on transit personnel with the allegation that it was a hate crime.
Arraignment is scheduled for Wednesday. An attorney for Tard could not be located.
The 56-year-old Singh had just pulled over the Metro bus he was driving in Inglewood on Nov. 6 when the assault occurred.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/hate-crime-charge-filed-in-assault-of-sikh-bus-driver