Man charged with hate crime over racist, homophobic rant on TikTok

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A Colorado man was arrested Monday after he was recorded on TikTok making racist and homophobic remarks to an Asian man and woman at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in California.

According to CBS News, Arine Kim and Elliot Ha were recording themselves while trying dishes from In-N-Out Burger’s secret menu on Christmas Eve. Kim and Ha were approached by a man who can be heard off-camera making offensive comments towards them. The man called the two “weird homosexuals”, threatened to spit in Ha’s face and told them he would see them outside.

“Are you Japanese or Korean?” he later asked. “Are you Japanese or Korean? Are you Kim Jong Un’s boyfriend? Do you have homosexual relations with him?

The two remember seeing the man staring at them after leaving the restaurant. “He was looking at us for 10 to 15 minutes through the window and his gaze never strayed from us,” Kim told CBS News. In-N-Out employees ended up walking Kim and Ha to their car at their request.

“We made sure to ask the workers, could you walk us to our cars, we need to make sure he’s not there yet. And the workers were just super helpful,” Ha said.

After the San Ramon Police Department became aware of the existence of the video, Police Chief Denton Carlson contacted the two people in the video and launched an investigation into the incident. The man was eventually identified as 40-year-old Jordan Douglas Krah. He was charged with two counts of a hate crime.

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