Mountain View school district employee arrested on suspicion of DUI, hate crime and threatening officer
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Mountain View school district employee says charges he's facing are unfounded
A Mountain View school district employee, who works with at-risk children said the charges he's facing, including hate-crime charges, are unfounded.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Mountain View police have arrested a man suspected of a hate crime following a car crash on Sunday afternoon, although the man in question denies any wrongdoing and says he believes a language barrier might have contributed to a misunderstanding.
KTVU spoke with the suspect, 37-year-old Shamir Simmons, on Monday after he spent more than 16 hours in jail before being released on his own recognizance. He also said the charges he's facing, including hate crime, are unfounded. Simmons, who's Black and self-identifies as being Eritrean-American, said he suspects the situation escalated because he was rude to responding officers.