A local homeless man has been charged with a late-night hate crime just weeks after wreaking havoc in a Berkeley apartment lobby, court papers show.
Dale Lipke. BPD
Police say Dale Lipke, 53, followed a man for five blocks, repeatedly yelling and chanting the N-word “while pointing two make-shift wooden daggers” at him.
When the victim, an older Black man, told Lipke to stop following him, he replied, “[N-words] don’t belong here” and continued to pursue him, Berkeley police said.
The abuse began shortly after 3 a.m. Feb. 9 at a bus stop in the 3000 block of San Pablo Avenue and continued to the 3000 block of Sacramento Street, police said…