Police in California investigate ‘possible hate crime’ against Chinese-American
Devil horns and a swastika were scrawled on a poster featuring Justin Sha, a 25-year-old lawyer who is running for the city council
Police in Fremont, California are investigating a “possible hate crime” after a Chinese-American political candidate’s campaign poster was vandalised with Nazi-themed graffiti, the East Bay Times on Saturday.
Devil horns and a swastika were scrawled on a poster featuring Justin Sha, a 25-year-old lawyer who is running for the city council.
Sha complained about his posters being defaced on Facebook.
“I felt a complicated mixture of sadness, pain and anger,” he said in an interview.
“This was made worse because my father saw the vandalised signs before I did. He was very emotional and unsuccessfully tried to erase the swastika symbol with his finger.”
More than 50 per cent of Fremont’s population is Asian while more than 40 per cent are foreign born, according to the 2010 Bay Area census.