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September 23, 2013

Sikh Physician Attacked in Apparent Hate Crime 
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A Sikh physician and professor at New York's Columbia University has
been attacked in an apparent hate crime. Dr. Prabhjot Singh was walking
near his home in Harlem when a large group of young males confronted
him, punching him repeatedly and calling him "Osama" and "terrorist."
Singh suffered a fractured jaw and multiple bruises.

 

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