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Michigan has recorded more than two dozen bigoted incidents since the election of Donald Trump. In many instances, Trump's name or a campaign slogan has been invoked during the incident.
Steve Neavling of Motor City Mucraker has compiled the incidents. Here is a sampling:
1. Ethiopian immigrant Yemaj Adem was driving his cab when the passenger, who was upset with the fare, began punching Adem in the face, yelling “Trump, Trump, Trump!” The cab driver had bruises on his face, and police said they are investigating the assault as a potential hate crime.
2. The driveway of a family with a Latino member was blocked by boxes taped together that read, “Trump,” “Take Back America” and “Mexicans suck” in Koylton Township on Nov. 12. The family “also found a doll made of balloons hanging nearby and vulgar graffiti spray-painted on the driveway,” according to the Tuscola County Sheriff’s Office.
3. Khadijah Wilson said she was shoved to the ground by a white man after accidentally bumping into him in the Walmart parking lot in Marquette on Nov. 13. She said the man yelled at her, “I hope President Trump does what he says he’s gonna do! He should send all you n****rs back to Africa!”
4. Four storefronts and the side of a church in Albion were hit with graffiti that included swastikas and other white supremacy symbols on Nov. 14. A rally was held in response to the graffiti.
5. An Indian-American woman in Hartland said a man spit on her, called her a terrorist and demanded she leave the country on Nov. 12.
6. At an elementary school in Ann Arbor, a student told a classmate, “Because Trump won, Jews will need to leave the country.”
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