Man charged with hate crime after verbal, physical assault on family of Asian descent

[dalton99a]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-charged-hate-crime-verbal-physical-assault-family/story?id=78237139

Man charged with hate crime after verbal, physical assault on family of Asian descent
He said the incident started when the kids wouldn't stop petting his dogs.
By Jon Haworth
June 12, 2021, 5:14 AM

A man has been charged with a hate crime after verbally abusing and physically assaulting a family of Asian descent while on vacation in Florida.

The incident occurred at approximately 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, June 10, on Okaloosa Island on the Florida panhandle about 40 miles east of Pensacola, when witnesses say that 54-year-old Forney, Texas, tourist Wade Anton reportedly told a woman and her children to “go back where they came from” and then made a racial slur against them, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities say that Anton told the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Department the incident began because the woman’s children were petting his dogs and supposedly ignored him when he asked them to leave his dogs alone.

“The woman's husband says they were all initially separated by about 25 feet during the verbal argument, but Anton ran around the park railings and began punching him repeatedly,” said the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Department in a statement on social media. “He told deputies as Anton was running towards him, he pulled a handgun to protect himself.”

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Wade Anton (Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office)

[ShazamIam]

1. Assault and battery, why are they calling battery assault. There can be no battery without

an assault, but there can be an assault that does not include battery, only verbal and body language.

This is a very bad trend, punishing only assault that can be labeled, "hate crime," assault is a crime. The, demanding that assault be labeled, hate crime, to be punished is wrong.

[Nevilledog]

2. K & R

[uponit7771]

3. "..the woman's children were petting his dogs.." dark hearted asshole