Berkeley woman charged with second hate crime in four months
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Antoinette Archimede, 56, was charged with battery, threatening a person based on their perceived characteristics and using offensive words in a public place. She remained in the Santa Rita Jail as of Wednesday afternoon, according to jail records. Archimede was arrested Apr. 30 after police said she accosted two women in the area of Telegraph and Durant avenues, threw water bottles at them and cursed one woman’s Asian ethinicity, said Berkeley Police spokesman Byron White.The Chronicle
The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office charged a Berkeley woman with a hate crime Tuesday for the second time this year.
Woman arrested for allegedly hurling Asian curses, water bottles in Berkeley
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Antoinette Archimede was charged with a hate crime in Berkeley.
BERKELEY, Calif. - The Alameda County District Attorney s Office charged a 56-year-old woman Tuesday with hate crime charges.
According to the Berkeley Police Department, two women were walking on the sidewalk a 3:58 p.m. Friday near Telegraph Avenue and Durant Avenue when they walked by Antoinette Archimede, who made eye contact with one of the women and then cursed her and her Asian ethnicity, before throwing water bottles at the women and walking away.
Police found Archimede a few blocks away and arrested her.
Woman arrested in Berkeley after alleged hate crime
The alleged assailant “yelled several hateful statements about people of Mexican descent” during the encounter Tuesday, police said.
Antoinette Archimede. Photo: BPD
Police arrested a 55-year-old woman earlier this week after she made racial slurs and pushed a female pedestrian into the street in the Southside Berkeley neighborhood, authorities report.
The alleged assailant, Antoinette Archimede, “yelled several hateful statements about people of Mexican descent” during the encounter, which took place just after 4 p.m. Tuesday, the Berkeley Police Department said in a prepared statement about the hate crime arrest. Archimede’s race is listed as white in BPD records online.