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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) The brother of Ashli Babbitt the San Diego woman fatally shot during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, has been convicted after he assaulted and hurled racial slurs at an SDG&E worker in Point Loma Heights.
San Diego City Attorney Mara W. Elliott announced Wednesday, 33-year-old Roger Stefan Witthoeft Jr. was convicted of all charges including a hate crime, for allegedly slapping a Latino worker last year and telling him to "talk in English you (expletive) immigrant" and "go back to your country."
This jury has sent a clear message that violent, abusive, and racist conduct like this has no place in our community, San Diego City Attorney Mara W. Elliott said. My Office will continue to prosecute and hold accountable people who commit hate crimes, and I urge victims and witnesses to report all such activity.
Prosecutors say, in Sept. 2021 the worker was diverting traffic at a Point Loma intersection where SDG&E workers were repairing a utility box, causing Witthoeft to become "enraged" because the worker's truck was stopped in the intersection.
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https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/ashli-babbitts-brother-convicted-of-hate-crime-against-sdg-e-worker
JenniferJuniper
(4,576 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)His brother in law and employer said that he had been estranged from Babbitt for some times
Hassin Bin Sober
(27,495 posts)republianmushroom
(22,697 posts)RockRaven
(19,750 posts)Kennah
(14,578 posts)Orrex
(67,392 posts)Makes sense. I can't tell you how many times I've innocently forced my way through a broken window in order to trespass on government property with the intent of overturning a legitimate presidential election.
Glass houses, amirite?
LetMyPeopleVote
(182,024 posts)This is not a nice family
CurtEastPoint
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