Chicago : An Indian man was mistaken for a Muslim and brutally hit multiple times on his head and face at a bar in the US, the latest in a series of anti-Muslim hate crimes following Donald Trump’s victory, reports PTI. Ankur Mehta was allegedly attacked at the Red Robin Restaurant in Pennsylvania while he was working on his tablet with earbuds in his ears when the attacker grabbed and punched him with his elbow and fist. The attacker who was identified as and Jeffrey Burgess also hurled racial and ethnic epithets at Mehta who was taken to a hospital with a loose tooth and a cut to his upper lip, Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 reported.
Mehta told police that Burgess said to him that “things are different now” and “I don’t want you sitting next to me. You people.” Burgess, 54, spoke with slurred speech and was staggering and smelled of alcohol, police said, adding that he then used an ethnic slur commonly used against those of Middle Eastern descent.
