{"id":48218,"date":"2022-05-13T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T21:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48218"},"modified":"2022-05-13T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T21:23:44","slug":"man-arrested-for-allegedly-disrupting-stop-asian-hate-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=48218","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested For Allegedly Disrupting \u201cStop Asian Hate\u201d Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-subhead\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mynewsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Flag_of_the_Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation-e1501628627833.png?fit=640%2C384&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"FBI seal\" data-hero-candidate=\"\" data-hero=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"main-content\">\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\"><figcaption>Courtesy the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<article id=\"post-176022\" class=\"post-176022 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-crime tag-demonstrators tag-diamond-bar tag-hate-crime tag-racial-slur tag-steve-dominguez tag-stop-asian-hate entry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Los Angels, CA (May 13, 2022)<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 Diamond Bar man was arrested Thursday on federal charges alleging he disrupted a \u201cStop Asian Hate\u201d rally by deliberately running a red light, blocking the path of demonstrators and yelling racial epithets at them.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Lee Dominguez, 56, was charged in a federal grand jury indictment with two counts of bias-motivated interference with federal protected activities, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>He was expected to be arraigned late Thursday afternoon in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, at the rally in Diamond Bar on March 21, 2021, Dominguez allegedly yelled, \u201cGo back to China!\u201d and other racial slurs at the demonstrators. He then deliberately drove his car through an intersection\u2019s crosswalk at the red light, made an illegal U-turn and cut off the route of several rally participants lawfully crossing the street, prosecutors allege.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p>The rally was a protest against the increase in hate crimes and hate incidents against members of the Asian American Pacific Islander community both locally and nationally \u2014 including the murders of six Asian American women five days earlier in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said one of the victims at the rally was an Asian woman carrying a sign that read, \u201cStop Asian Hate.\u201d Another victim was a Black girl who carried a sign that read, \u201cEnd the Violence Against Asians.\u201d Another person who was cut off in the crosswalk was a 9-year-old child, and Dominguez\u2019s car narrowly missed coming into contact with her and others, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Dominguez allegedly then pulled his car over some distance away from the intersection, got out of the car and continued to yell racial epithets and threats at the demonstrators. He then called the police, identified himself as \u201cJohn Doe\u201d and falsely reported to police that the rally participants were blocking the street and he had to run a red light \u201cbecause they were about to trample my car,\u201d the indictment alleges.<\/p>\n<p>He also allegedly requested that police \u201cget some control out\u201d at the intersection.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted of the two charges in the indictment, Dominguez would face up to 20 years in federal prison, prosecutors noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy the Federal Bureau of Investigation.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48219,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48218\/revisions\/48219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}