Man who police say threw rocks at Asian woman driving her 6-year-old son charged with hate crime

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Morning Mix

A man threw rocks at an Asian woman driving her 6-year-old son, police say. He’s charged with a hate crime.

By Jaclyn Peiser
April 6, 2021 at 4:15 a.m. EDT

An Asian woman was driving her 6-year-old son in their Tesla last month through a quiet suburban stretch of Orange County, Calif., when something loud popped against her car. Soon, another projectile hit. The car’s window was broken, and a bumper was dented.

After she called 911, police quickly arrested a White man who authorities say was pelting her car with rocks.

“The man later told police Koreans in the area were trying to control him,” the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release on Monday.

On Monday, prosecutors charged Roger Janke, 28, of Fullerton, Calif., with a felony hate crime, along with other counts for vandalism and violating civil rights. Janke faces a maximum sentence of six years in state prison and six months in county jail.

Janke, who is being held at Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, Calif., on bail of $51,500, has pleaded not guilty. A lawyer for Janke was not listed in court records.

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Jaclyn Peiser
Jaclyn Peiser is a reporter on the Morning Mix team. She previously covered the media industry for the New York Times. Follow https://twitter.com/jackiepeiser

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Amazing isn't it how the christofascist are being controlled and cancelled and censored....

and yet they are still talking, lying, and on the street attacking minority folks.

[JI7]

3. Just an excuse to try to get with their shit.

[colsohlibgal]

2. Hate Filled Losers

I worked with two Asian people along the way both could not have been more nice, polite, and cordial.

We need to up the ante on prison sentences on these cretins.