Police are investigating a viral video online that shows a man spitting on a Muslim woman with young children at Old Town Plaza and saying she would “burn in hell.”
Sana Ali, 31, was walking with her young children when she met Daniel Bernal, 70, who works for a company that has contracts with the Kirtland Air Force Base.
The Albuquerque Police said in an incident report that someone asked Ali if she was a Christian, insulted her children, and later spat at her through his rolled-down car window.
Ali captured the incident, and her friend posted it on Facebook, gaining views and efforts towards identifying the man, while the police track his plate number caught on video.
Officers mailed out summons directing Bernal to appear at Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court on April30.
Bernal is currently facing only a battery crime.