The Vermont State Police are investigating an alleged bias-based incident that occurred last week in Hartford, VT, reports NBC 5.
According to police, a black man was verbally harassed and threatened for having New York license plates. He was reportedly driving his 11-year-old son near their Hartford home before being approached and flagged down by two pickup trucks. Police state that the victim assumed the men needed help, leading to him stopping his car before talking to the white male who told him the governor does not want him in the state, that he should leave, and then made racially charged remarks.
According to VSP Captain Gary Scott, the attorney general’s office has a bias reporting system that allows them to investigate a civil action even with no criminal cause. The alleged victim owns property in VT, and has been living here since early-March, though he is a professor at an out-of-state university.
This was reportedly not the first racially charged incident, and anti-Asian sentiments have been happened in the Rutland area.
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