The programme also included felicitating the winners of the 'Dr Manu Mukt Manav international youth awards' that are named after an IPS (Indian Police Service) officer in India, who died very young.
HAF described the advertisement as “racist, un-American, anti-Indian profiling/trolling” by a federal agency and said it should “shock our nation’s collective conscience”.
Patel’s death has left his family, friends and colleagues facing the loss of a man whose final journey home was meant to be an ordinary part of his day.