A violent bigot allegedly yelled racial slurs before grabbing a fork and stabbing a black man who was sitting with two white women in a Brooklyn diner, authorities said today.
Nicholas Melo, 34, was slapped with charges that include assault as a hate crime in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday for his violent outburst in the Bay Ridge eatery last November.
Melo called two white women sitting with Akbar Salahuddin “n—-r-loving b——” inside the Bridgeview Diner, according to his criminal indictment.
He then stabbed Salahuddin in the head and back with a fork and punched him as he called him “n—–,” the indictment said.
The Bay Ridge resident was collared in April after he was pulled over for talking on a cell phone, making an illegal u-turn, and driving with a suspended license.
He tried to slip loose by telling cops, “I have to go, I have a job interview that my mother set up,” court documents state.
The cops didn’t buy it and Melo was identified in a police lineup at the precinct. Melo is out on $50,000 bail.
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