Ex-rideshare driver charged with federal hate crime for alleged attack on passenger he picked up at SFO

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The Justice Department said Csaba John Csukás assaulted a passenger he believed to be Jewish or Israeli.

SAN FRANCISCO – Authorities on Wednesday arrested and charged a former rideshare driver from Daly City with a federal hate crime for allegedly assaulting a passenger he believed to be either Jewish or Israeli last fall at the San Francisco International Airport.Citing an indictment, the Justice Department said Csaba John Csukás, 39, worked as a driver for an app-based rideshare company and was hired to drive the victim home from SFO.

“The defendant, a rideshare driver, is charged with assaulting a rider because he thought the rider was Jewish or Israeli,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. Robert Tripp, special agent in charge of the San Francisco FBI field office, called the alleged attack “senseless and brutal.”

 

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