Sikh taxi driver assaulted by passengers in hate crime

Harkirat Singh was assaulted by drunken passengers who called him racial slurs and ripped off his turban.


Harkirat Singh (Photo Credit: New York Daily News)
In New York, a Sikh taxi driver was assaulted by a group of drunken passengers who called him racial slurs and ripped his turban off his head. Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. (No shit.)

Sikh taxi driver assaulted, turban stolen by drunken passenger in the Bronx

25-year-old Harkirat Singh, who wears a turban and unshorn beard in observance of his Sikh faith, was driving a woman and three men in their early 20s from Madison Square Garden to the Bronx early Sunday morning when the passengers began to physically assault him and rip off his turban.

Bronx man attacked by suspects who shouted "ISIS!"

NYPD investigating the assault on Mujibur Rahman as an anti-Muslim hate crime.



On Friday in the Bronx, a Muslim man wearing traditional South Asian clothing was attacked by two suspects who shouted "ISIS! ISIS!" while they assaulted him. NYPD is investigating the incident as a hate crime.

Assailants Yell 'ISIS! ISIS!' During Attack on Man in Bronx, Police Say

43-year-old Mujibur Rahman was dressed in a shalwar kameez and walking his 9-year-old niece home from school early Friday evening when two suspects approached them from behind and attacked him.

The suspects, who are believed to be teenagers, shouted, "ISIS! ISIS!"