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Hate crime charges possible for Minnesota woman...
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Hate crime charges possible for Minnesota woman who attacked another for speaking Swahili: authorities
BY KATE FELDMAN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, November 6, 2015
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/hate-crime-charges-woman-attacked-speaking-swahili-article-1.2426385?utm_content=buffer6b17d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Prosecutors are considering hate crime charges against a woman who smashed another woman across the face with a beer mug for not speaking English while dining with family at a Minnesota Applebee’s restaurant.

Asma Mohamed Jama needed 17 stitches for deep cuts on her nose, eyelid and lip after Jodie Marie Burchard-Risch took offense at the foreign language and started a brawl, according to authorities.

Jama, a Kenyan immigrant, was speaking Swahili.

“I live in America. I can speak English but we prefer to speak our own language,” Jama told If it bothers you, I’m sorry,” Jama told WCCO-TV.

Burchard-Risch was charged with third-degree assault - a far too lenient punishment for a heinous crime, according to the executive director of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

“The current charge is insufficient to communicate the seriousness of and possible bias motive for the alleged attack,” Jaylani Hussein said Friday in a news release.

Burchard-Risch, 43, was eating with her husband at the Coon Rapids eatery when she heard the family speaking a language that was not English, according to court documents obtained by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

She started yelling at the family as restaurant staff tried to usher her out the door. But Burchard-Risch was able to toss her drink onto Jama before slamming the glass, in a “roundhouse punch” motion, into the woman’s face, the documents say.

A restaurant manager was able to keep pace with the alleged attacker, who fled the scene, until police arrived.

Paul Young, the criminal division chief of the Anoka County attorney’s office, said his office is looking into further charges.

“We are absolutely considering additional charges and potential factors that can enhance sentencing,” he told the Star-Tribune.

We share everyone’s concerns,” he said. “No one should be a crime victim because of language or ethnicity.”

The alleged attacker was convicted in 2011 of an assault charge and is next due in court Dec. 7.

kfeldman@nydailynews.com



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