Woman charged in East Bay park confrontation with Muslim men

Denise Slader, an employee of the California Department of Corrections, confronted two men of Middle Eastern descent, who were praying near the entrance to Lake Chabot Regional Park around 3 p.m. Sunday, said Carolyn Jones, a spokeswoman for the park service.



A state Corrections Department employee was formally charged with battery in connection with the confrontation earlier this month with two Muslim men who were praying in a Castro Valley park.

Denise Slader was also charged with violating the civil rights of the men, according to the complaint filed Wednesday in Alameda County Superior Court in Hayward.

The complaint said Slader “willfully and unlawfully used force and violence” on one of the men, Rasheed Albeshari, and “unlawfully injured and interfered” with his civil rights.

In the incident, which occurred at Lake Chabot and was captured on video Albeshari took, Slader is seen shouting at the men that their god is Satan and the Quran is “evil.” Slader is seen hitting Albeshari with an umbrella and throwing coffee on him. The video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times online.

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