Texas men charged with hate-crime assault on Sikh man in Richmond
Two men from Texas were charged Friday and a third was cleared of wrongdoing in a brutal attack on a Sikh man in Richmond last month that left him with sheared hair, nerve damage, a black eye, broken teeth and a pinky finger requiring amputation, prosecutors said.
Chase Bryan Little, 31, and Colton Tye Leblanc, 24, were charged with felony assault with hate-crime enhancements in the attack on Maan Singh Khalsa. A man previously identified as a suspect, Dustin Albarado of Louisiana, was cleared of criminal liability, said Simon O’Connell, Contra Costa County deputy district attorney
“The savage cutting of Mr. Khalsa’s unshorn hair, a sacred article of his faith, constitutes a hate crime under the law,” O’Connell said in a statement.
Little and Leblanc were fired from their jobs at Koch Specialty Plant Services, a firm associated with Koch Industries, the behemoth company run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. The men were in the East Bay for contract assignments at the Chevron refinery in Richmond.
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