“Go Back To Your Own Country” Washington Sikh Told Before Being Shot; Shooter At Large

Sunday, March 5, 2017
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Mar 5, 2017

The Police Department in Kent, Washington is investigating a Friday night shooting that left a man wounded as a possible hate crime. A Sikh man was shot in Washington state by an attacker who approached him in his driveway and yelled, “go back to your own country” according to police reports. The victim was wearing a turban at the time of the shooting.

The Friday night shooting which took place city of Kent about 15 miles (24 km) south of Seattle, has followed a number of other attacks on Sikhs in the United States over a period of more than a decade. Authorities say around 8 p.m., an armed individual walked up to a man working on his car in a driveway at a house off 108th Avenue SE. According to Reuters, hate crime-tracking groups say assailants have occasionally mistaken Sikhs for Muslims, who have also been victimized in religiously motivated crimes. The good news: the victim was released from hospital with no permanent injury, the Seattle Times reported.

The Sikh man was working on his car in the driveway of his home when he was shot in the arm, according to Seattle television station KIRO 7, which spoke to a woman who knows the victim and saw him after he was struck by the bullet. “Some comments were made to the effect of ‘get out of our country, go back to where you’re from,’ and our victim was then shot,” Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas said at a news conference. “To think that this could happen in our community was very surprising and extremely disappointing,” Thomas said. “This is the first incident of this magnitude that I am aware of in the city of Kent” the police chief added.

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