New Yorker Arrested for Mowing Down Sikh Man

Sandeep Singh was mowed down in New York on July 30. Just days later, another Sikh man and his mother were attacked by a group of teenagers and called “Osama Bin Laden” in an apparent hate crime. (The Sikh Coaliton/YouTube photo)

Sandeep Singh was mowed down in New York on July 30. Just days later, another Sikh man and his mother were attacked by a group of teenagers and called “Osama Bin Laden” in an apparent hate crime. (The Sikh Coaliton/YouTube photo)

New York — A 55-year-old man has been arrested here on charges that he called a Sikh man a “terrorist” and mowing him down with his pick-up truck, in an apparent hate crime.

Police in Queens arrested Joseph Caleca of Setauket in Suffolk County and charged him with attempted murder and hate crime, ABC 7 News reported.

Caleca had attacked 29-year-old Sandeep Singh, who was seriously injured when he was hit by the pick-up truck and dragged nearly 30 feet on a public street in Queens following an argument on July 30….

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