Itzel Lopez and her boyfriend were sitting at a red light on July 22 in Torrance, Calif., when a White couple stormed out of their pickup truck.
“Only White lives matter,” the woman said, according to an Instagram video Lopez shot of the incident. The woman stood on the passenger side, flipping dual middle fingers at Lopez and her boyfriend, who is Black.
The man, who was standing on the driver’s side, fluttered his hand in a wave then yelled “white power!” and made a Nazi salute. Then he grabbed a shovel and slammed it against the car as Lopez’s boyfriend backed up and sped away.
On Friday, the married couple in the video, Gregory and Rachel Howell, both 29, were arrested on hate crime and vandalism charges, police said.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/03/hate-crime-racism-torrance-california/
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