Indian American hurls racist abuse at another

JUST days after an Mexican-American woman was arrested after racially abusing a few Indian-American women in Texas, a similar incident has been reported again from the US and this time, it was an Indian-American man who was found being racially abused by a compatriot in the state of California.

On Wednesday (31), NBC News reported that a man named Krishna Jayaraman was verbally attacked by another called Tejinder Singh at a

Taco Bell eatery in Grimmer Boulevard in Fremont, California, and the latter even called Jayaraman a ‘dirty Hindu' and ‘disgusting dog'. The incident reportedly happened on August 21.

Singh, who belongs to Union City in the Golden State, was charged on Monday (29) with a hate crime in violation of civil rights, assaulting and disturbing the peace by using offensive language, the Press Trust of India reported citing Fremont Police

Department.

Singh was listed in charging documents as 'Asian/Indian', the report added.

It was reported that Jayaraman recorded the abuse, which lasted for more than eight minutes, on his phone. He captured the moment when Singh told him, ‘You're disgusting, dog. You look nasty. Don't come out in public like this again.'

He also called him a ‘dirty Hindu,' repeatedly using the N-word, and yelled ‘beef!' in Jayaraman's face after learning that he didn't eat meat. He also appeared to spit at Krishnan Jayaraman twice in the video.

Singh was also heard saying: ‘... this ain't India! You...India up, and now you're...America up.'

Jayaraman said he was scared by the incident and was upset by the fact that the person who abused him was also Indian.

‘I was scared, to be honest with you,' he told NBC Bay Area.