Hate crime: Racist Latino punches 69 year old White woman in wheelchair, says "I hate White people"

8 months ago
20

2012 - A Modesto man was arrested Tuesday after police say he beat up a woman in a wheelchair, then said "I hate white people".

The 69-year-old woman was assaulted at a bus stop on Coffee Road near a medical center. Police say Nicolas Velasquez, 29, punched the woman in the face and walked away saying, "I hate white people".

The woman was found with a black eye, a cut on her face and broken glasses at the bus stop.

Velasquez now sits in Stanislaus County Jail for one count of elder abuse and one count of committing a hate crime.

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