ANATOMY OF A HATE CRIME
A According to police documents, on March 2, 2018, Ryan Austin Lee attacked two Latino men who were sitting in a parked car near Garfield Lake Park in southwest Denver’s Westwood neighborhood. Lee reached through the passenger side window and punched the passenger. Both men exited the car and began walking away, but Lee grabbed the driver, threw him to the ground, and began kicking his head while yelling racist epithets [1]. The driver tried to protect himself with his arms until the passenger and others stopped Lee.
This was . In 2017, he chased a mixed-race family around the same park while wielding a
