{"id":5486,"date":"2023-11-05T21:45:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T21:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2023-11-05T21:45:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T21:45:37","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-driving-car-at-stop-asian-hate-demonstrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=5486","title":{"rendered":"Man Pleads Guilty to Driving Car at &#8220;Stop Asian Hate&#8221; Demonstrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>From a Justice Division <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndoh\/pr\/ohio-man-pleads-guilty-attempting-burn-down-church-planned-host-drag-show-events#:~:text=%E2%80%9CAttempting%20to%20burn%20down%20the,Justice%20Department's%20Civil%20Rights%20Division.\">press release<\/a> dated Oct. 24, however simply posted on Westlaw a number of days in the past:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A Diamond Bar man pled responsible at the moment to a federal felony civil rights cost for disrupting a &#8220;Cease Asian Hate&#8221; rally in March 2021 by working a purple mild and driving by way of a crowded crosswalk of peaceable demonstrators whereas shouting racial slurs and epithets.<\/p>\n<p>On the third day of trial, Steve Lee Dominguez, 57, pleaded responsible to 1 felony rely of bias-motivated interference with federally protected actions\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In keeping with the <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cacd.850884\/gov.uscourts.cacd.850884.95.0.pdf\">Plea Agreement<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Defendant drove to the &#8220;Cease Asian Hate&#8221; rally in his automobile, a black Honda four-door sedan. When he approached the intersection at\u00a0the middle of the rally, he stopped and yelled &#8220;Return to China!&#8221;\u00a0and &#8220;fuck China!&#8221; to the rally contributors, together with the Victims. Defendant then intentionally ran a purple mild and drove his automobile, which was always a harmful weapon, by way of the crosswalk of the intersection. He made an unlawful U-turn and reduce off the route of a number of rally contributors who have been lawfully crossing the road within the crosswalk. The Victims, different adults, and a nine-year-old youngster needed to rapidly transfer to keep away from being hit by defendant&#8217;s automobile. Defendant then obtained out of his automobile and continued to yell racial epithets and threatening language on the rally contributors, together with &#8220;come on you fucking Niggers,&#8221; &#8220;you Jap motherfucker,&#8221; &#8220;Fuck you, you Gook!&#8221; and &#8220;Fuck you, I will be again,&#8221; amongst others.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Justice Division press launch additionally states,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He then known as the police, recognized himself as &#8220;John Doe&#8221; and falsely reported to police that the rally contributors have been blocking the road and he needed to run a purple mild &#8220;as a result of they have been about to trample my automobile,&#8221; in line with proof introduced at trial. He additionally requested that police &#8220;get some management out&#8221; on the intersection.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2023\/11\/05\/man-pleads-guilty-to-driving-car-at-stop-asian-hate-demonstrators\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Justice Division press release dated Oct. 24, however simply posted on Westlaw a number of days in the past: A Diamond Bar man pled responsible at the moment to a federal felony civil rights cost for disrupting a &#8220;Cease Asian Hate&#8221; rally in March 2021 by working a purple mild and driving by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3189,1127,5752,5750,2134,5751,1465,2133,721],"class_list":["post-5486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-asian","tag-car","tag-demonstrators","tag-driving","tag-guilty","tag-hate","tag-man","tag-pleads","tag-stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}