Nevada governor and his wife accosted at restaurant by men shouting ‘racist threats’
Steve Sisolak said the men shouted threats at his wife, Kathy Sisolak, who is of Chinese heritage
Gloria Oladipo
Tue 1 Mar 2022 15.34 GMT
The Nevada governor and his wife were accosted and chased from a restaurant in Las Vegas on Sunday, as two men, one a rightwing “digital creator”, shouted profanities and threats.

In a statement, Steve Sisolak said the men shouted “racist threats” at his wife, Kathy Sisolak, who is of Chinese heritage.

The Sisolaks planned to meet their daughter at the restaurant. They were not accompanied by security guards.

Cellphone video posted to social media showed a man in a red T-shirt reading “Cannabis and Combat” asking Sisolak for a picture. While posing with his arm around the governor, the man began to insult him.

The man was identified by news outlets as Justin Andersch, a “digital creator” who posts anti-government rightwing conspiracy theories on a blog called Cannabis and Combat. The Las Vegas Sun reported that Andersch took credit for accosting the Sisolaks on a podcast he creates.

“Where’s your security at, punk, huh?” Andersch was heard to say in the video, pointing his cellphone at Steve Sisolak’s face.

The governor turned to leave. As Kathy Sisolak joined him, Andersch followed, saying: “You working-for-China piece of shit.”

Several suspected hate crimes have recently been reported in Las Vegas and Nevada. Last August, an elected official in rural Nye county declared, without evidence, that Kathy Sisolak had family members in China profiting from selling items related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Sisolak said then: “Kathy and I, along with so many others, have worked hard to fight back against the anti-Asian racism brought on by misinformation regarding Covid-19, but comments like these only take us backward.”

On Sunday, a second man also followed Sisolak and his wife out of the restaurant, shouting that the governor deserved to be hanged.

“We should string you up by a lamp post right now,” Andersch said. “You’re running into a patriot now.”
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Phnom Poon wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 9:36 pm
left-right is a very simplistic measure of bias, there are many more dimenions

Concur. I am basically very left, but on this issue, I am so far right that the leverage on the balancing stick would make me look right wing, with just a single factor.

“You working for China piece of shit” is hardly a racists remark is it.
He obviously did it for attention.

I’m all for news reports on any racism but this is just news fodder, although I’m sure it was upsetting for his wife but even if he said piece of shit it’d be upsetting.