The man is now facing two misdemeanor charges of battery and committing a hate crime, officials said.
On Christmas Eve, Arine Kim and her friend Elliot Ha were eating at an In-N-Out Burger in San Ramon when they were approached by a man who cornered them with racist insults.
The pair were recording a TikTok video and trying menu items when he approached, calling them "weird homosexuals," before returning to make other bigoted remarks about their race and ethnicities. "I personally couldn't believe it. I didn't believe it was real, it was so random," Ha, who initially responded with nervous, shocked humor,"It's a fear response, so you're nervous and you don't know what to do in that situation but to laugh it off," Kim said, adding that she was grateful for Ha's humor at the time.
Arine Kim and her friend Elliot Ha are subject to racist and homophobic comments from a stranger at a San Ramon In-N-Out restaurant.In the video, Ha said he had never experienced anything like that before. For Kim, however, this was an unfortunate reminder of hate speech she's encountered in the past.
Only a few miles away in Danville, a woman named Abigail Halili said she and her family were met with similar comments on Christmas morning.
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