A Chattanooga man allegedly screamed “I’ll kill all you n——-s” and “I’ll shoot you n——-s” before dousing three people’s cars in gasoline.
“The damage to the vehicles is believed to be racially motivated due to the racial slurs yelled,” an officer wrote in a sworn statement in the case.
In a separate incident, a man allegedly let the air out of his co-worker’s tires at a Soddy-Daisy hotel after he was confronted for being racist in the workplace, a law enforcement statement said.
He then allegedly texted his supervisor that “he wasn’t taking orders from a n——-, sorry I’m a white man strong in my heritage,” the statement said.
These encounters were two of at least 13 alleged hate crimes in Hamilton County since 2014, a criminal court case report shows.