A 46-year-old man facing charges in connection with two separate assaults will face an additional hate-crime charge, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.
At a press conference, District Attorney Pamela Price said Aqweel Akbar Khan, who had been charged with a hate crime in connection with an August 2021 attack against a woman in a Fremont park, would also face a new hate-crime charge based on information added Tuesday.
Brown is the neighbor whom Khan injured by repeatedly ramming his vehicle into him on Dec. 6, 2021, in the parking lot of their shared Fremont Boulevard apartment complex. “When the members of my team saw this video and we looked at the facts in this case, as we are looking at the facts of every case that is pending that comes before us, we elected to amend the information,” Price said.
Price told reporters that prior exchanges between the two had included Khan threatening and using racial slurs against Brown, as well as vandalizing Brown’s car with similar slurs. Price added that Brown was still traumatized by the incidents, but “is very grateful that the district attorney that he says he voted for is actually doing her job. However he has a civil matter pending, and so his ability to speak is somewhat limited.”
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