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发帖数: 20445 | 2 Prabhjot Singh, Sikh Columbia Professor, Attacked In Possible Hate Crime (
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Posted: 09/22/2013 3:58 pm EDT | Updated: 09/23/2013 12:18 pm EDT
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UPDATE:
A Columbia University professor was assaulted on Saturday night in what
police say is being investigated as a hate crime.
According to a New York Police Department source, Dr. Prabhjot Singh, who is
Sikh and wears a turban and a beard, was attacked at 8:15 p.m. while
walking along 110th Street near Lenox Avenue in upper Manhattan. An unknown
suspect or suspects shouted anti-Muslim statements, knocked the professor
down and punched him numerous times in the face.
Dr. Singh joined HuffPost Live Monday morning to discuss Saturday's incident
, telling hosts Marc Lamont Hill and Alyona Minkovski that he's "remarkably
okay" following Saturday's attack. Dr. Singh said he saw an oral surgeon
over the weekend to have his jaw wired, and recounted details of Saturday
night's attack.
"I saw young men on bikes. I heard, 'Get him!' and 'Osama' and 'terrorist,'
not all at the same time," he said. "I felt somebody grab my beard and hit
my chin while on a bike. I started running in the direction away from where
all the bikes were mobilizing, and then was punched while running.
Eventually they surrounded me, and [I] was hit to the ground with punches to
the face and torso."
Dr. Singh is a practicing doctor in East Harlem as well as an assistant
professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He and
Simran Jeet Singh wrote about the importance of gathering more information
on hate crimes against Sikhs in an op-ed in the New York Times last year:
The government must begin tracking and counting anti-Sikh hate crimes, just
as it must continue to vigorously combat bias and discrimination against all
Americans, including Muslims.
Dr. Singh said that the incident is a reminder that we need to have a "
national conversation" about what it means to be American.
"Ultimately, to simply punish the individuals who've acted out on hate
crimes is insufficient," he told HuffPost Live. "More broadly, we need to
have a real national conversation around who looks American, what does it
mean to be American." |
