Overview

• The incident occurred Sunday afternoon in a downtown Pinole parking lot and was captured on video, which has since gone viral across the Bay Area and beyond.
• The Pinole Police Department has classified the exchange as a hate incident and referred the case to its Criminal Investigation Bureau for further review.
• The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office is currently evaluating the case to determine whether hate crime charges will be filed.
• Pinole Mayor Cameron Sasai publicly condemned the use of racial slurs, describing the footage as disturbing and stating such rhetoric is unacceptable in the city.
• The woman in the video is also linked to an unrelated pending theft case involving repeated shoplifting from a cosmetics store in Concord.