The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for hate-crime charges against a woman accused of hitting another woman with a beer mug because she was speaking a language other than English at a Coon Rapids Applebee's. Jodie Marie Burchard-Risch, 43, of Ramsey was charged with third-degree assault Monday in Anoka
Minnesota Woman Brutally Assaulted For Speaking Swahili In Applebee’s
Burchard-Risch and her husband were at the restaurant Oct. 30 when they got upset over hearing someone speaking a foreign language in the next booth, according to the criminal complaint.
