UC Berkeley police investigate election-related hate crime

A man in his 50s who went up to Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley while election returns were playing on a screen Tuesday evening shouted racist and homophobic phrases at two students, according to the University of California Police Department. The man then spat at them with spittle landing on one of the students. UCPD is classifying this as a hate crime. The two students, one male and one female, were watching the election returns around 6:40 p.m. when the man yelled at them, according to police.