According to The Local, 32-year-old Yusupha Sallah and his son Yunus were out walking on a Malmö bridge Sunday, when a group of four people reportedly approached the duo. One of them is said to have "kicked a toy" out of the toddler's hand.
When Sallah stepped in to protect his son, the young boy was allegedly thrown to the ground while his dad was assaulted. According to local newspaper Sydsvenskan, several men rushed to the scene to participate in the beating.
Sallah, a Gambian native who has been living in Sweden for the last eight months, says he was called a "black bastard" and that his attackers threatened to kill him and his child.
"They beat and kicked his father on the body and the head. When he fell they tried to throw him off the bridge," Thomas Bull, head of Malmö Police Department's hate crime unit, told Sydsvenskan, per The Local.
