Suspect in SF skateboard attack on Jewish man charged with hate crime
The San Francisco District Attorney's office is filing hate crime charges against a suspect who allegedly attacked a Jewish man with a skateboard.
Prosecutors say that on Dec. 17, Eduardo Navarro Perez asked a Jewish man on Haight Street if he was Black or Jewish. When the man said he was Jewish, Perez allegedly proceeded to attack him with the skateboard. The man told officials that during the attack, Perez made "disparaging remarks towards Jewish people."
There is a high bar for hate crime charges. The DA's Office told SFGATE that since District Attorney Brooke Jenkins took office in July, hate crime enhancements have been filed in just three other felony cases and one misdemeanor case. Her office previously faced criticism for not charging the suspect who allegedly attacked former San Francisco Commissioner Greg Chew with a hate crime, but prosecutors believed they did not have enough evidence to sustain such a charge.
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