GUILTY CA - Police chief’s son arrested in brutal beating of 71-year-old Sikh man, 2018

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Police chief’s son arrested in brutal beating of 71-year-old Sikh man in California

The incident took place at 6 a.m. Monday morning, in Manteca, a city in California’s Central Valley, as the 71-year-old Sikh man, Sahib Singh Natt, was taking an early morning stroll near a park. Surveillance video shows two hooded men walking toward him and blocking his path, in what authorities identified as an attempt to rob him. When Natt tries to cross the road, they follow him closely and block his path again.

After what appears to be a brief verbal exchange, the hooded men start kicking Natt and knock him to the ground. When Natt gets up, one of the suspects kicks him in the stomach and again, knocks him to the ground.

The suspects stroll off, and then one of them returns, to kick Natt three more times, before spitting on him.

Natt was taken to hospital where he was treated for minor injuries and then released.

 

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Sikh Community Rallies For Man Beaten In Manteca Park

Hundreds of people, some traveling far distances, gathered at Greystone Park in Manteca Tuesday night in a show of unity. The group gathered just feet away from where surveillance cameras caught the 71-year-old man being hit and kicked by two young men.

The mayor, council members, and community leaders attended the meeting. Even the victim himself showed up. Many were relieved to see him walking and recovering well considering what he went through.

“It’s not an attack on an individual it’s an attack on an entire community,” said one speaker at the event.

 

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Sikh Man Beaten, Spat On. "Devastated" Police Chief's Son Is Suspect

Natt, who does not speak English, couldn't understand what the men were saying, Manteca police said. He was hospitalized and later released.

The disturbing assault, which took place days after a different attack on a Sikh man in Central California, prompted calls for a hate crime investigation. It drew about 200 local residents to a rally at the park where the confrontation took place. It also jolted the greater Sikh community across the state, including in Union City, about 60 miles away.

There, at a National Night Out event on Tuesday, Sikh community members told Union City Police Chief Darryl McAllister about what happened and asked how they could help prevent such a "horrific crime" from taking place in their town.

Video here:
"Embarrassed": Police Chief On Son's Arrest In Sikh Man's Assault In US

 

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The Police Chief's facebook post about this incident Union City Police Department

 

[Jennifer17]

I don't believe that this was an attempted robbery.

 

[bluesneakers]

I don't think it was an attempted robbery either, and I don't like his father trying to make it about himself.

 

[SugarQueen]

It had to be difficult for the Chief to put that statement out there. He sounds like any good parent with a child who went down the wrong path. Seems he has allowed he son to suffer the consequences of his actions for his past crimes also. I don’t know what more we can expect from the Chief.

 

[Jennifer17]

It had to be difficult for the Chief to put that statement out there. He sounds like any good parent with a child who went down the wrong path. Seems he has allowed he son to suffer the consequences of his actions for his past crimes also. I don’t know what more we can expect from the Chief.

I think that he could have called the crime for what it is instead of trying to downplay it as an attempted robbery. What does the think that they were going to rob an old man of on his early morning walk?

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

he had numerous "theft-related" incidents in his past so this BEGINNING as a potential robbery of a man who did not understand English, is possible IMO. Once they realize he can not understand what they are asking him (perhaps for his wallet?), it becomes about something much different IMO.

So glad Mr. Natt appears to be recovering.

So sad at what is happening all around us right now.

 

[kimlynn]

I don't see how you could raise a child to respect elders and then have them do such a thing to an elderly person.
At first it didn't seem like robbery,but in this video you can the one doing the kicking reach down as though to take something from the man on the ground.
Glad Mr. Natt is doing okay.

Sikh man kicked, spit on in another California attack: Police

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

yup, since the chief did pen that extensive FB entry, it is ripe for picking apart. Indeed, says he was raised to respect elders and yet...

 

[katydid23]

The chief would be picked apart, no matter what he said. Or even worse, if he said nothing.

Here is a part that I thought was noteworthy:

"About 10am this morning, Manteca police tracked, found, and arrested my son in Modesto. My wife and I worked with Manteca PD to help them track him down and arrest him. He now faces serious felony charges for which, if convicted, he stands to spend a considerable about of time in prison. My family is shaken to the core. His sisters (one corporate and the other about to start law school), are at a loss to understand any of this. "


He personally helped them track down his son so he could be arrested.


Are we going to hold ALL parents responsible for the acts of their criminal children? People asked ' if he was taught good values at home, how could he do this?' Easy answer. He didn't learn that violence AT HOME.

He learned it on the streets, with his gang friends. He left his family home and joined his new family, on the streets. We have seen it time and time again.

I know plenty of families that had one messed up criminal minded kid, and 2 or 3 well adjusted, healthy ones. It is not always something that can be blamed on the parents. There are many complicating factors.

It may have been stressful on a young boy for his Dad to be a cop and that might have played into his distancing himself from them. I am sure the troublemakers gave him a bad time and he may have tried to prove himself to them early on, to show he was 'cool.' That was the road he chose, evidently.

 

[kimlynn]

I don't doubt there was some hate or rage as well. The return for more kicking and spitting in Mr.Natts face. Awful. IMO

 

[katydid23]

I think that he could have called the crime for what it is instead of trying to downplay it as an attempted robbery. What does the think that they were going to rob an old man of on his early morning walk?

If his son has a criminal history of robberies, than it makes sense that it started out as a potential robbery.

Young creeps like that rob the elderly because they are vulnerable. And many take a walk to the market and have money or cell phones on them.

 

[katydid23]

I don't doubt there was some hate or rage as well. The return for more kicking and spitting in Mr.Natts face. Awful. IMO

I am sure there was hate and rage. Who accosts an elderly person on an innocent walk other than a hateful ?

 

[bluesneakers]

I am sure there was hate and rage. Who accosts an elderly person on an innocent walk other than a hateful ?

Specific hate toward a specific type of person, not just being a hateful who robs and kicks people.

 

[bluesneakers]

yup, since the chief did pen that extensive FB entry, it is ripe for picking apart. Indeed, says he was raised to respect elders and yet...

And yet...
"Violence and hatred is not what we have taught our children; intolerance for others is not even in our vocabulary, let alone our values. Crime has never been an element of our household, our values, nor the character to which we hold ourselves."

Also throwing out how awesome his other two children are (one "about to start law school") does not help his case.

 

[katydid23]

And yet...
"Violence and hatred is not what we have taught our children; intolerance for others is not even in our vocabulary, let alone our values. Crime has never been an element of our household, our values, nor the character to which we hold ourselves."

Also throwing out how awesome his other two children are (one "about to start law school") does not help his case.

I think it does. If all 3 of his kids were violent gang members, I would question his parenting skills aggressively.

Of course he is going to feel defensive. Who wouldn't?

 

[SugarQueen]

Maybe it did become more than a robbery. At this point we have no way of knowing. Since Mr Natt does not understand english he would be unable to tell LE what was said to him.
We cannot assume it was racially motivated just because he is a Sikh. Do we label every crime where the criminal/ victim are different races as racially motivated ?? Of course we don’t, because that isn’t always the case.

 

[kimlynn]

The chief would be picked apart, no matter what he said. Or even worse, if he said nothing.

Here is a part that I thought was noteworthy:

"About 10am this morning, Manteca police tracked, found, and arrested my son in Modesto. My wife and I worked with Manteca PD to help them track him down and arrest him. He now faces serious felony charges for which, if convicted, he stands to spend a considerable about of time in prison. My family is shaken to the core. His sisters (one corporate and the other about to start law school), are at a loss to understand any of this. "


He personally helped them track down his son so he could be arrested.


Are we going to hold ALL parents responsible for the acts of their criminal children? People asked ' if he was taught good values at home, how could he do this?' Easy answer. He didn't learn that violence AT HOME.

He learned it on the streets, with his gang friends. He left his family home and joined his new family, on the streets. We have seen it time and time again.

I know plenty of families that had one messed up criminal minded kid, and 2 or 3 well adjusted, healthy ones. It is not always something that can be blamed on the parents. There are many complicating factors.

It may have been stressful on a young boy for his Dad to be a cop and that might have played into his distancing himself from them. I am sure the troublemakers gave him a bad time and he may have tried to prove himself to them early on, to show he was 'cool.' That was the road he chose, evidently.

Treating others with respect is ingrained by parents and becomes so natural that it isn't even thought about as we go about our lives.
He could have been acting out to impress friends but if he was the one doing the kicking his actions seem pretty extreme and over the top and were not needed to impress his friend. IMO