Sikh cab driver assaulted, turban snatched, in US

New York : A 25-year-old Sikh cab driver in the US was assaulted and his turban knocked off by drunken passengers, an incident the police was investigating as a possible hate crime.The incident took place here early Sunday morning and has left Harkirat Singh, an immigrant from Punjab who moved to the US three years ago, scared.
“I’m so afraid. I don’t want to work,” Singh told the New York Daily News. “It’s an insult on my religion, also. An insult of my faith. It’s horrible.”
The report said the New York Police Department is investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted in his support, saying: “Harkirat Singh — You are welcome here. What happened to you was wrong. You did the right thing by calling the NYPD”. Last week, Sikhs in the US launched a million-dollar awareness campaign aiming to inform Americans about the Sikh faith amid continuous incidents of hate crime against the community. Singh said he picked up three men and a woman — all in their 20s — around 5 am Sunday from Madison Square Garden.