A 29-year-old man faces multiple charges and and hate crime enhancements after officials say he unleashed a string of racial slurs and threatened to kill a 12-year-old Black youth this week in San Francisco.
Brendon Kruse was arrested on Monday evening following the incident near a Walgreens at O’Farrell and Divisadero streets.
The encounter began at about 7:40 p.m., as the boy and his friends were headed to the Walgreens to buy snacks, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
The friends saw a woman crying nearby, and the boy approached her to ask if she needed help. At that point, officials said, Kruse ran up to the boy and began screaming epithets at him.
The victim’s friends ran away and Kruse kept yelling, the source said, and held the victim’s bicycle in place as he victim tried to pull it away.
Officials alleged that at some point Kruse showed the victim tattoos of two lightening bolts and skulls, and said it meant he kills (n-words). Kruse is alleged to have threatened to kill the young boy.
It is unclear whether Kruse knew the woman who was crying.
Kruse was arraigned Thursday and charged with criminal threats, child endangerment and false imprisonment with hate crime enhancements.
“A hate crime against one of us is a crime against all of us,” said San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, whose office is prosecuting the case. “We will not tolerate bigotry and hatred in San Francisco. We will hold anyone committing hate crimes to account.”
Prosecutors asked that Kruse be held in jail, but a judge set bail at $40,000, officials said.
His preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 30.
If a hate crime is in progress, officials ask that people call 911 immediately. For additional questions, prosecutors urge residents to contact the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office hate crime hotline at 415-551-9595.
Megan Cassidy is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: megan.cassidy@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @meganrcassidy
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