The Los Angeles Times reported that an American Japanese professor is studying the history of racism and racist beliefs in the United States at East Los Angeles Community College recovery after being a victim of potential hate crime, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The April 29 incident appeared at about 10 pm on Merl Drive in Monttello, not far from the 71 -year -old Aki Mayhara’s house.
in Interview with the TimesMayara said he was riding his electric bike when he discovered a sedan directly heading to him. Moments before the driver of the car hit him, he heard a person cursing and screaming about a racist family targeting people of Chinese origin.
The 71 -year -old veteran collision in Vietnam has sent via a resident square to a brick wall.
He told the port that he heard, then a man telling him to leave the country while insulting him and using another racist haven before speed.
Mayara, who suffered from serious injuries in the face, hips, elbows, and lower back, told the Times that he had contacted friends to ride to Virginia Hospital in Long Beach because a trip in an ambulance was expensive.
Professor believes that he might be targeted because he is wearing a full -face helmet while riding his bike, so no one knew that he was Asian, and it is not the first time that he was at the intersection of people who did not seem to love his views.
“There is a long history. They have become a semester at East La College. Republicans came to Chicano and saw me at Cal State Long Beach,” he told the Times newspaper. “KKK came to the class in Cal State Long Beach when I was studying a course in the American Vietnam War. This is not the first time I target.”
A Gofundment It was organized by Glorya Cabrara, a friend, to help Maehara at the expense of professional home health care.
So far, Monttello police have not suspended anyone and told the Times that they have not been able to determine any security footage of the accident, although they continue to investigate.
As for Mihara, the 71 -year -old made a decision to return to the semester for only four weeks in the semester, saying that he refused to “abandon his students,” according to Kaberaira.