On Monday Decenber 5th, 2016, CNN put out an article that summarizes and talks about the issue of an NYPD Muslim officer because the victim of a hate crime. Aml Elsokary was dropping off her 16 year old son in Brooklyn when a man began top argue with him. She intervened and was threaten by the man saying that he was going to cut her throat and telling her to go back to her country. The man was later arrested and put in jail for his actions and the city of New York was sickened by this predicament. Personally I'm just confused as to why this particular case was publicized and not the hundreds of hate crimes that happen every single day in which no justice is served. The hate crimes have spike significantly due to the recent election of president-elect Donald Trump, which is really not a big surprised considering islamophobia and xenophobia were big factors in his presidential campaign. I just think the whole situation is wrong and I'm glad that justice was served. It still saddens me that this type of conflict doesn't happen rarely in America, it happens all the time, they just aren't publicized like this particular case.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/05/us/muslim-nypd-officer-harassed-trnd/index.html
Shaking my head just why are people so racially profiled
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