Port Orange Shooting Investigated as Hate Crime: Racist Suspect Driving F-150 Truck Opened Fire on Sikh Man & his son
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Don't Blame the Truck. White Supremacy is carried out through deception and/or violence, such as acts of domestic terrorism. [thecode] In the attempted murder of Kanwaljit Singh, the media and other cultural managers seem afraid to say "white male suspect" and have diverted all discussion to the wearing of turbans and driving F-150 trucks. Most likely, it is only a "hate crime" because racist suspects, aka white persons, are involved.
From [HERE] and [HERE] A Sikh man shot as he drove over a bridge with his 13 year old son and who investigators say was probably targeted in a hate crime because he wears a turban, was released from the hospital this week and is recovering at home. Kanwaljit Singh was resting at his Port Orange residence Tuesday afternoon, said his wife, Paramjit Kaur. He is a non-white person with brown skin.
He was discharged from Halifax Health Medical Center after being in critical condition since he was shot on Feb. 23 just before midnight.
Singh's car was shot at six times as the 46-year-old father of two headed west over the Dunlawton Bridge. He was with his 13-year-old son at the time and the pair had just closed a new convenience store that Singh had opened on the beachside, friends said. Singh was struck twice, bullets entering his torso and one of his thighs.
Officials said Singh and his son were crossing the bridge when a [white person(s)] in a Ford F-150 pickup truck pulled alongside of Singh's Ford Focus.
As the two vehicles neared the top of the bridge, authorities said someone from the other car fired several shots into Singh's car. The 13-year-old was not hit. Port Orange detectives have released little information, saying they do not want to jeopardize their case. The incident report also has been kept under wraps because it contains several details on the case, said Capt. David Meyer.
Investigators have said the attack was probably not random because Singh — a follower of the Sikh religion — was wearing the head turban traditional for men of that faith, said Navtej Khalsa, regional director of the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund in Oviedo. The turban represents a commitment to equality and justice.
Khalsa said that since Sept. 11, many Sikhs have been the focus of hate crimes because uninformed individuals think they are Muslims or Arabs.
Investigators have said the shooter was in a black or dark-colored late 1980s or early 1990s Ford F-150. The pickup has a Ford decal on both sides, police said.
