San Ramon Man arrested for hate crime after video captures
racist rant at In-N-Out
Dec 26, 2022
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A man who was caught on video spewing racist and homophobic remarks to a woman and her friend at a San Ramon In-N-Out on Christmas Eve has been arrested, according to police.
Danville on Christmas morning was the last place and time Abigail Halili and her siblings expected to have an abrasive encounter.
"We heard a guy parked in his car yelling from his window saying keep walking you need to get away from that store, 'you've been the people vandalizing and robbing theses shops,'" said Halili.
The taunts quickly turned racial and included an obscene hand gesture.
Thanks to social media the Halili family quickly learned
they weren't the only Asian Americans in the East Bay to be targeted by these
racist rants.
You can hear a man off camera say "...you guys filming yourself eating? You're weird homosexuals."
San Ramon Police ABC7 News the suspect seen in Halili's video is the man they arrested Monday afternoon, linked to a racist and homophobic tirade at an In-N-Out in San Ramon on Christmas Eve.