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Video shows men yelling racial slurs during Bellingham, WA fight
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/crime/article48917705.htmlA video with millions of views online shows a man yelling a racial slur at a black man during a fight in downtown Bellingham early Saturday morning, Dec. 5....
The video, which is a little over a minute long, appears to show a man punch a woman in the face during a struggle. The woman’s boyfriend, Serigne Diouf, who is black, is then seen exchanging swings with two other men. One of those men appears to jump on Diouf while someone yells a racial slur multiple times. The video also contains profanity....
Diouf said in an interview with The Bellingham Herald that the three men attacked him and his girlfriend because of his race.
“Because I am a black man they jumped on me and called me a (racial slur),” Diouf said.
The video, which is a little over a minute long, appears to show a man punch a woman in the face during a struggle. The woman’s boyfriend, Serigne Diouf, who is black, is then seen exchanging swings with two other men. One of those men appears to jump on Diouf while someone yells a racial slur multiple times. The video also contains profanity....
Diouf said in an interview with The Bellingham Herald that the three men attacked him and his girlfriend because of his race.
“Because I am a black man they jumped on me and called me a (racial slur),” Diouf said.
This is the second incident of racial ugliness in Bellingham in recent weeks. The first was on the campus of Western Washington University, where a friend who is Chinese is a student.
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