By Jay Heer (Form 8J2)
It was another normal day for Parminder. He was a Sikh man who was living near the town centre. Every week, he would go to the Indian clothes shop and check out any new clothes. When he was younger, he was bullied because he was Sikh but that was long gone and he had forgotten about it. He put on his kirpan (sword) around his neck and set off to go to the shop in town. He drove to town and parked In the parking lot and was walking to the shop when he heard people laughing behind him, he looked around and there was no one there.
Was he going mad? He looked around again as he had heard something else but saw no one. He walked a little faster and out of nowhere four men came out of nowhere behind him and had quickly stolen his kirpan and were taunting him with it one man had got his phone out and had started recording. They all started pushing him and punching Parminder. One of the boys was pretending to sword fight the air and laughing. He noticed that people were watching and laughing but no one was coming to help. To avoid getting hurt anymore he quickly got up and ran for it, he ran as fast as he could hoping the men wouldn’t catch him. He ran around a corner and thought where should I go, then it came to him. The clothes shop. He ran to it hoping that they wouldn’t see him but one of the boys had.
He ran inside the clothes shop and started to breathe normally again. Everyone in the shop looked at him for a second but then saw he was fine and carried on. He slowly walked around the shop. CRACK, something had broken the glass of the shop and everyone fell to the ground in case they got hit. BANG, another thing had hit another window and narrowly missed Parminder and he saw it was a brick. Then he heard male voices as he entered the shop. It was the people that had taunted him before they were laughing about the clothes that they had. They were pushing the clothes around and ripping them. Then they were saying, “Wow what kind of clothes are these? Don’t monkies wear these.” Then they all started laughing. They were pushing everything off the shelves and left the shop still verbally abusing the Indians. The shopkeeper then called the police and waited still shaken by these events.
“Is everyone ok?” Parminder asked.
“Yes,” said everyone. They all waited for the police to come and gave them what had happened and the evidence that they knew. Parminder also told the police that they recorded a video and they said there is a good chance that they posted the video so his family helped him look and eventually found it and the boys were imprisoned for 5 years.