By Yashwant Raj Washington 9th, September : For certain Americans there is no Indian-American who will never be American enough.Even if one of them is elected to the US Congress to represent millions of Americans.
Indian-American lawmaker Pramila Jayapal was allegedly hounded by one of her friends who drove close to her house in Seattle, Washington hurling insults and insults in her direction.He confessed to the police following his arrest that he would do this every day until she bags up her belongings and heads off to India.
The Washington Post on Thursday published a story about her 47-minute ordeal the evening of July 9 , when she was at home and felt for the first time man’s hatred.She was watching the psychological thriller “Mindhunter” with her husband, Steve Williamson, when it began.
This was the first time they had seen and heard about the stalker, and his black vehicle with gold rims were driving by their house was frequented by neighbors.
It was 10:38 p.m.
“F .C .,””, said one of the men according to the voices recorded by security cameras.Another voice was heard saying something similar to “India”.
“But I’m going to continue driving by and express my opinion until she returns to India or does something else,” Brett Forsell, 49 one of the two men stated as he was sitting in the police car following his arrest.
Jayapal was born in Chennai, India and moved to the US at the age of 18.After two years in Washington state politics – a stint in the state Senate she was elected to the House of Representatives in 2016 making her the first Indian woman to be elected in this manner (Kamala Harris was the first Indian American woman elected to US Senate the same year, and their respective terms began in 2017.).As a Democrat, she is now in her third term, and heads the liberals in Congress as the chairperson of the House Progressive Caucus.
Jayapal has been a vocal criticism of the former president Donald Trump and blamed him for the stalker.”The person who was in the White House, the highest office in the country actually unleashed and mobilized all of the violence and white supremacy by using the power of the federal government,” she said shortly after the incident.
Many Indian-Americans will connect with her story.Some of them were victimized by an individual in Plano, Texas recently.”Go back to India,” their tormentor an individual who identified herself as Mexican-American, told them over and over in addition to other things.She was later detained.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla was an engineer in the field of software with GPS important Garmin was killed in an establishment outside the premises of the company in Olathe, Kansas in 2018 by a man who shouted at him to “leave my country”.The perpetrator claimed he was mistaken for an individual belonging to the Middle East.
“I’ve been told over and over again by people to me to return to India,” Jayapal told The Washington Post.”But I’ll say that this was distinct.It was truly different.”
Forsell had thought of erecting the tent near Jayapal’s residence to serve as an ever-present reminder.And , on the night of his arrest, he was carrying a Glock pistol, which, he said to police was intended for self-defense only.
The US Federal government’s top investigation agency, the FBI is a watchdog of discriminatory language and acts as hate crimes, including race disability, religion sexual orientation, ethnicity gender, gender identity and gender.
Crimes committed against Indians and Indian-born Americans are included in the umbrella of the religion of “Anti-Hindu”.The latest FBI hate crime report noted that there was a seven percent increase in cases involving Hindus.
These are the most up-to-date publicly available information on bias-related crimes.
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