lego 44,165 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 A Muslim off-duty NYPD officer, hailed by the mayor as a hero, and her 16-year-old son became the city’s latest hate crime victims Saturday when a bigot in Brooklyn yelled at them to “go back to your country,” police sources said. Officer Aml Elsokary, who was off duty and wearing her hijab, dropped off her 16-year-old on Ridge Blvd. and 67th St. in Bay Ridge just before 6 p.m., the sources said. After parking her car, she returned to the scene to find her son being shoved by the suspect, a white man in his 30s. NYPD officer Aml Elsokary was celebrated as a hero when she saved an elderly man and a baby girl from a burning building in 2014. When the officer — a native New Yorker — approached, the man said, “ISIS (expletive), I will cut your throat, go back to your country!” Elsokary did not identify herself as a police officer, and was unarmed. The suspect then fled the scene. Cops were trying to track him down Saturday night. The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is probing the episode as a bias incident. Officer Elsokary — who proudly wears her hijab on duty in the 90th Precinct — was touted as a hero after she ran into a burning building to save an elderly man and baby girl in April 2014. But “Officer Elsokary was a hero long before that remarkable day,” said Mayor de Blasio at a 2014 dinner at Gracie Mansion celebrating Ramadan Iftar, the end of the annual Ramadan fast. The decorated officer had joined the force shortly after the Sept. 11 terror attacks to “show people that the terrible acts of that day contradicted the teachings of Islam,” the mayor said. “As both a Muslim and a native New Yorker, she knew she needed to get involved,” de Blasio said. The mother-of-five received a medal for her bravery. After answering her door in Bay Ridge Saturday night, she politely declined to speak with a reporter. Saturday’s incident became the latest in a growing list of bias crimes across the city since Trump’s election. On Thursday night, three drunk white men repeatedly screamed “Donald Trump!” and hurled anti-Islam slurs at Baruch College student waiting for a No. 6 train at 23rd St. and Park Ave. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/hero-muslim-son-harassed-bigot-brooklyn-article-1.2897687 FreePalestine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddy 5,686 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Awesome a cop with a hijab is comething I never thought I'd ever see though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix 17,395 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Queen of saving her son 💎 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Why do people care about other people's personal lives so much? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
August Blue 8,566 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 3 minutes ago, Phoenix said: Queen of saving her son Also queen of saving an elderly man and a baby girl from a burning building in 2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix 17,395 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 42 minutes ago, August Blue said: Also queen of saving an elderly man and a baby girl from a burning building in 2014 Just queen overall 💎 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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