Milwaukee police arrested a man suspected of throwing battery acid on a Latino man who says his attacker asked him, 'Why did you come here and invade my country?'
Milwaukee police arrested a man suspected of throwing battery acid on a Latino man who says his attacker asked him, “Why did you come here and invade my country?”
The attack comes amid a spike in hate crimes directed at immigrants that researchers and experts on extremism say is tied to mainstream political rhetoric.At a news conference on Monday, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett expressed shock at the attack and blamed President Trump for inciting hatred against minorities. The president has repeatedly referred to migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border as an “invasion.
The man again accused him of being in the U.S. illegally, Villalaz said. He then told the man that he was a citizen and that “everybody came from somewhere else here,” Villalaz said.
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