ST. LOUIS (AP) — A suburban St. Louis health director says he was called racial slurs and physically assaulted after defending a mask mandate to combat COVID-19.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports St. Louis County Health Director Dr. Faisal Khan in response raised his middle finger during a Tuesday county council meeting.
Khan was defending a mask mandate the council voted to overturn.
Khan says audience members mocked his accent and shoulder-bumped him.
He says he was called a brown expletive.
Khan says he’s not sorry for raising his middle finger in response to what he described as “racist vitriol.”
County officials are investigating.
