An East Boston woman says she and her daughter were the victims of a hate crime. A woman is calling on Boston police to investigate after she and her daughter were allegedly attacked in East Boston for speaking Spanish.
“We were attacked based on our race, our language, and our identity,” victim of East Boston attack says. “We were punched, bitten,” the woman said through a Spanish interpreter.
Vasquez met with Boston Police Department detectives and the case is now being investigated by the department’s civil rights unit, according to police officials.
However, her attorneys are not satisfied and want the case investigated as a hate crime.
Janelle Dempsey, of Lawyers for Civil Rights said: “It’s so clear, from the police report, what this was. It’s so clear that this was a hate crime.”