Punched in the Face for Speaking Turkish in LA:
Umit Bozer v. Hakob Navasardyan

As part of a spate of malicious attacks against Turkish Americans coinciding with the October 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, a group of diners was verbally accosted at a restaurant in Beverly Hills, California for no other reason than they were speaking Turkish. Then, without provocation one of the accosters punched a Turkish American diner in the face, injuring him. The assailant and his accomplice fled. The Beverly Hills Police Department quickly identified the assailant, Hakob Navasardyan, and arrested him. [read]

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