Police surround Sikh man as callers report ‘Muslim with sword’ in Pennsylvania!Top Stories

September 22, 2016 12:58
Police surround Sikh man as callers report ‘Muslim with sword’ in Pennsylvania!

The United States police surrounded a Sikh man Harpreet Singh Khalsa carrying a kirpan in a alleged racial profiling, after getting calls about an apparent Muslim walking around a shopping centre with a ‘large knife’ or ‘sword’.

He was the victim of racial profiling in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, but police stated that those who called in their concerns did the right thing, Khalsa said.

According to the Police in Bethlehem Township, Northampton County, they received multiple calls about an apparent ‘Muslim man’ walking around the Bethlehem Square Shopping Center with a “large knife” or “sword”.

The Indian Express reported, that, multiple officers responded to find Khalsa sitting inside a van parked in the fire lane.

“The cops surrounded me and told me to put my hands on my head,” Khalsa said.

Captain Greg Gottschall, Bethlehem Township Police Department, said that, “Embarrassed, humiliated, ashamed, for even bothering to come to Bethlehem,” Khalsa said. Given recent attacks in New York and Minnesota, officers said people are on higher alert. “People are a little sensitive to things that are unusual.”

“They did the right thing. They called for us to come and check it out,” he was quoted as saying. However, Khalsa said he was racially profiled and misunderstood. “To have a caller in the first place is pointing to racism, clearly racism,” Khalsa said, adding that it was “fear-driven racism”.

Nandini

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