According to police, a Colorado man was arrested on hate crime charges after a TikTok video showed him hurling homophobic and racist slurs at two Korean-American customers dining at a California In-N-Out Burger.
The college students who took the video were interviewed first by NBC Bay Area. Another customer at the restaurant, according to the two friends, harassed them.
Jordan Douglas Krah, 40, of Denver, Colorado, was arrested and charged with two counts of committing a hate crime by San Ramon police on Monday, according to a police department statement.
Investigators believe the rant occurred on the night of Christmas Eve inside an In-N-Out Burger in San Ramon, when Arine Kim and Elliot Ha were filming a TikTok video of Ha’s reaction to Kim’s food order.
Krah approached Kim and Ha while they were filming the video and “engaged in a homophobic and racist rant.” According to police, the encounter caused Ha and Kim to “fear for their safety.”
@arinekim My friend and i were filming his reaction to my in-n-out order when this happened… #arinekim
Kim’s TikTok video went viral, attracting the attention of San Ramon Police Chief Denton Carlson, who took to Twitter to try to identify the perpetrator.
He shared a photo of Krah and stated that the suspect was driving a Silver Mustang with Florida license plates. He was eventually apprehended and booked into the Martinez Detention Facility.
Thank you to everyone who has helped by providing information associated with the racist and homophobic incidents over the past few days.
We are continuing to investigate & have made significant progress. Once we have more info to share, we will provide the full details.
— Chief Denton Carlson (@DentonLCarlson) December 26, 2022
Krah was charged with two counts of ‘Committing a Hate Crime,’ according to a release from Lieutenant Tami Williams of the San Ramon Police Department.
He was still being held as of December 26.
If anyone knows the individuals who posted this on TikTok, please have them contact me or @SanRamonPolice directly. https://t.co/kypwFosklm
— Chief Denton Carlson (@DentonLCarlson) December 25, 2022
Carlson tweeted on Monday that Krah was ‘being interviewed’ and that additional arrest charges would be filed ‘if determined necessary.’
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