Ed Dahlberg got in this cabby's car to go home and decided to get into an argument about Islam and Jihad with Army Reserve Sgt veteran/cab driver Mohamed A. Salim, a Muslim man.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/thefold/exclusive-cellphone-video-of-alleged-cab-assault/2013/04/30/31a4a8c2-b1dd-11e2-baf7-5bc2a9dc6f44_video.html
should this be a hate crime? Sounds like Dahlberg got charged with a misdemeanor but my understanding is that under Virginia law this should be classified, at a minimum, as felony malicious wounding which is a class 3 felony that comes with a maximum sentence of 20 years.
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