Today’s hate crime fail…..
Man Charged With Hate Crime For Allegedly Punching Turban-Wearing Store Clerk

Police say Brock Stainbrook walked into the 7-11 just after midnight Aug. 24, approached a clerk wearing a turban, threw change on the floor and then punched the clerk in the side of the head.

“You’re not even American, you’re Al-Qaeda. Go back to your country,” he then said, according to police.
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According to a police affidavit, Stainbrook admitted “that he struck a person on his turban because he was a prick.”

The Post-Intelligencer notes that the victim’s last name “is common within the Sikh community.” (Sikhs are, notably, not Muslim.)