Palo Alto Police: Woman Strikes Man With Laptop In Hate Crime Attack

[Judi Lynn]

January 25, 2021 at 3:23 pm

PALO ALTO (CBS SF) – Police in Palo Alto have arrested a woman on hate crime and assault charges after she allegedly attacked a man over his nationality in the city’s downtown Friday night.

Officers responded to a call of a battery in progress on the 300 block of California Avenue around 7:55 p.m. When they arrived, police found the victim but the suspect had fled on foot.

During the investigation, police said the victim, a man in his 50s of Middle Eastern descent, was approached by the suspect, who is White. The suspect asked the victim for money. After he refused, she questioned the man about his immigration status and demanded to see his ID, which he again refused.

Police said the suspect then took a laptop out of her bag and struck him twice. She then picked up a wooden sign from the sidewalk, swung it at the victim and missed.



Sarah Ann Neal is accused of attacking a man over his nationality on January 22, 2021.
(Palo Alto Police Department)

The victim told police that the suspect told him that he probably hates women and was “the reason the country was going down.” He believed the attack was spurred on by the suspect hearing his accent while talking on the phone before the incident.

More:
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/01/25/palo-alto-hate-crime-arrest-300-california-avenue/

[DFW]

1. I had go read this to make sure it wasn't my nephew

One of my nephews lives in Palo Alto, and has Asian features, as his mother is from Japan.

The age of Trump has left scars on the national psyche that it will take a generation to heal. Except they will never heal as long as Republicans find it to their advantage to keep them festering.

[Crowman2009]

2. Looks like a deranged racist drug addict.

Not sure which drugs.

[lagomorph777]

3. Angel dust?

Is that still a thing?

[Harker]

5. Might be Red Ripple on her turtleneck. n/t

[ahlnord]

4. Disconnect

First, SHE was begging him for money. Then she assaulted him and accused him of being a misogynist. Then she exercised her xenophobia to accuse HIM of bringing down this country. Shameful! I also find it astonishing that she had a laptop to assault him with, yet she was begging. There is so much disconnect to this story.