Saturday, Sep 23, 2023
English News
  • Hyderabad
  • Telangana
  • AP News
  • India
  • World
  • Entertainment
  • Science and Tech
  • Sport
  • Business
  • Rewind
  • ...
    • NRI
    • View Point
    • cartoon
    • Columns
    • Education Today
    • Reviews
    • Property
    • Videos
    • Lifestyle
E-Paper
  • NRI
  • View Point
  • cartoon
  • Columns
  • Reviews
  • Education Today
  • Property
  • Videos
  • Lifestyle
Home | World | Sikh Man Attacked With Hammer By Hate Fuelled Black Assailant In Us

Sikh man attacked with hammer by hate-fuelled Black assailant in US

Ahluwalia said the man, a Black, assaulted him on April 26 at his workplace, the Quality Inn in Brownsville.

By PTI
Published Date - 12:56 PM, Tue - 4 May 21
Sikh man attacked with hammer by hate-fuelled Black assailant in US
Ahluwalia said the man, a Black, assaulted him on April 26 at his workplace, the Quality Inn in Brownsville.
whatsapp facebook twitter telegram

New York: A Sikh man was attacked with a hammer by a Black assailant who shouted at him “I don’t like you” and “You’re not the same skin” at a hotel in Brooklyn here, prompting a prominent New-York based advocacy group to call on investigators to examine if the assault was a hate crime incident.

Sumit Ahluwalia, 32, of Astoria has said his assailant was fuelled by racial hatred, according to a report on New York Daily News website.

Ahluwalia said the man, a Black, assaulted him on April 26 at his workplace, the Quality Inn in Brownsville. He said the man came into the lobby of the hotel at around 8 am and started shouting while the front desk lady asked him if he needed help.

Ahluwalia stepped into the lobby to speak with the man and to seek the hotel security guard. At that point, the assailant “started running towards me, very fast, and he put his hand in the pocket — I thought, ‘He’s pulling out a gun”’, the report said.

Pleading with the man, the victim said, “What happened? You’re my brother.” The attacker responded “You’re not the same skin,” Ahluwalia said, adding that the man then “banged on my head with the hammer so hard.” The assailant then screamed, “I don’t like you,” and ran away, according to the report.

It said the victim “couldn’t feel what happened with me” and was eventually taken to an emergency room.

“I couldn’t sleep. I had a big bump on my head. I could fall — feeling dizziness, and the next morning I went to the doctor,” he said, adding that five days later, he was still feeling anxious and fearful.

“I didn’t do anything… I don’t deserve this. I’m a hardworking guy, wake up in the morning 6 a.m. and go home at 7 pm,” he said.

Police have released pictures of the suspect, who was still being sought.

Advocacy group The Sikh Coalition said its legal team is providing free legal services to Ahluwalia.

“We have already been in direct communication with law enforcement and demanded that investigators examine the real possibility that bias was a motive,” it said, adding that anyone with information about the incident should contact the New York Police Department.

The tragic incident comes as the US has witnessed a recent wave of anti-Asian hate crimes during this pandemic.

Eight people, including four Sikhs, were killed in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis last month.

In March last year, a man stabbed two Asian American children – aged 2 and 6 – and their father at Sam’s Club in Texas because “he thought the family was Chinese, and infecting people with the coronavirus.” A group of Democratic Senators in May last year said there has been a surge in hate crime against Asian-Americans amid coronavirus pandemic and had urged the Trump administration to take concrete steps to arrest the spike.


Now you can get handpicked stories from Telangana Today on Telegram everyday. Click the link to subscribe.

Click to follow Telangana Today Facebook page and Twitter .


Telangana Today Whatsapp
  • Follow Us :
  • Tags
  • anti-Asian hate crime
  • Black assailant
  • Hate Crime
  • racial hatred

Related News

  • Sikh man accused of stabbing two individuals at community event in UK

    Sikh man accused of stabbing two individuals at community event in UK

  • Sikh man dies after being rescued from California lake

    Sikh man dies after being rescued from California lake

  • India condemns ‘hate crime’ at Canada’s Bhagavad Gita Park

    India condemns ‘hate crime’ at Canada’s Bhagavad Gita Park

  • ‘Heroic’ Indian-American metro train driver saves Asian man in hate crime

    ‘Heroic’ Indian-American metro train driver saves Asian man in hate crime

  • Rallies in Atlanta, nation against hate after spa shootings

    Rallies in Atlanta, nation against hate after spa shootings

  • California adopts first statewide ethnic studies curriculum

    California adopts first statewide ethnic studies curriculum

Latest News

  • Pakistan’s economy on edge of precipice, warns World Bank

    8 seconds ago
  • Tollywood actor Navdeep appears before Hyderabad police in drug case

    7 mins ago
  • I was hurrying a bit, thought let’s take a little bit more time: Suryakumar Yadav 

    8 mins ago
  • Hemant Soren moves Jharkhand HC challenging ED summons

    11 mins ago
  • Indian Army unit leaves for Russia to take part in military drill

    20 mins ago
  • Keeping away from sweets: Hrithik Roshan shares glimpse of Ganesh Visarjan at home

    21 mins ago
  • UP: Sanjay Gandhi Hospital decides to move court against suspension of licence

    27 mins ago
  • Woman killed, two others injured in bike-bus collision in Warangal

    29 mins ago

company

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

business

  • Subscribe

telangana today

  • Telangana
  • Hyderabad
  • Latest News
  • Entertainment
  • World
  • Andhra Pradesh
  • Science & Tech
  • Sport

follow us

© Copyrights 2022 TELANGANA PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD. All rights reserved. Powered by Veegam