In an apparent incident of hate crime, a man hurled racial slurs and kicked a 55-year-old Indian-origin woman in Singapore for not wearing a mask while she was brisk walking. Hindocha Nita Vishnubhai, a private tutor, was brisk walking on Friday morning when a man approached her and asked her to pull her mask up from her chin, her daughter Parveen Kaur was quoted as saying by the Channel News Asia on Monday.
Nita was walking along Choa Chu Kang Drive when the man came up to her near a bus stop outside Northvale condominium, according to the Channel report.
“She explained that she was brisk walking but he didn’t care. He hurled vulgarities and racial slurs at her,” Kaur said in a widely circulated Instagram post.
“My mum responded with a ‘God bless you’ and the guy kicked her in the chest. My mum landed on her back and hurt herself,” she said.
The man, whose identity is not yet known, ran away while the woman was left shaken and bleeding.
Kaur said her mother brisk walks to…