Sakshi Venkatraman is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
A California man who pleaded guilty to driving a car into a crowd of “Stop Asian Hate” protesters was sentenced to a year in prison on Monday. Steve Lee Dominguez, 58, from the Southern Californian city of Diamond Bar, drove his car through the middle of the crowd at a 2021 rally in Los Angeles. Federal prosecutors said he deliberately drove through a red light and into a crosswalk where peaceful demonstrators were marching. He narrowly missed hitting multiple protesters and a 9-year-old child.
In the weeks that followed, “Stop Asian Hate” protests and rallies appeared in cities nationwide. Dominguez was arrested in May 2022 for driving into the Los Angeles rally, and has been free on a $30,000 bond since then. In October 2023, he pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge: one felony count of bias-motivated interference with federally protected activities. His one-year sentencing this week is pursuant to the terms of the plea agreement. “Mr.
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