A suburban Atlanta college student says racism motivated a harrowing attack by white men that left him needing medical treatment last weekend.
Jalique Rosemond claims his attackers called him racial slurs and ripped out part of his locs during a bloody assault in the parking lot of his apartment complex. Days after the incident, two men have been charged with aggravated battery and battery in connection with the affray.
Rosemond wants the men involved charged with a hate crime.
“This was just nothing but a hate crime towards me,” Rosemond told WSB-TV in Atlanta before the charges were announced. “They were referring to me as ‘boy,’ calling me Black. They were calling me the N-word,” he added.
Rosemond, a Kennesaw State University student, says he had just completed his final DoorDash delivery for the day before returning to his Kennesaw apartment complex just before midnight on Saturday, Jan. 21. Rosemond said he was pulling into his parking area when he saw a group of young men standing in the parking lot. He claims he tried to drive around them for a vacant parking space.
As Rosemond exited his vehicle the unspecified number of white men in the parking lot approached him before he was attacked. Rosemond told WXIA he was able to run around a parked jeep to avoid two white men who caught up to him and began assaulting him. Police later identified those two men as Gauge Dakota Stanley, 20, and Kole Zuba Reasoner, 20, and both face multiple charges.
“They said that I was driving recklessly in the neighborhood and hit their fraternity brother, which is completely wrong,” Rosemond said.
