Crime & Safety
Hate Crime Probe Launched After LA County Family Threatened Over Flag
Sheriff's officials released a photo of the man accused of threatening an Agoura Hills family over a flag display.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Leaders of a Southland Islamic group Wednesday hailed the instigation of a hate crime investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department into the alleged harassment of an Agoura Hills family in 2024 because a Palestinian flag was displayed in a window of their home.
The sheriff's department issued a bulletin Tuesday with an image of the suspect — a white man about 30 years old who was wearing a white button- down, short-sleeved shirt and black pants — who was reported to have aggressively pounded on the family's front door, damaging it, and making "threatening, racially charged statements referencing a Palestinian flag displayed in an upstairs window."
"No one should face harassment or threats simply for displaying a flag that represents their identity or their call for justice," Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in a statement. ... We must remain vigilant in opposing all forms of hate and ensure our communities can safely express their identities and stand up for justice and human rights.
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Anyone with information about the incident, which occurred on Sept. 28 at around 2:10 p.m., was urged to call detectives at the sheriff's Malibu/Lost Hills Station at 818-878-1808.
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