Decorated NY police officer asked to ‘go back to your country’ by a racist

A Muslim woman, wearing a religious head covering was shouted at by a white male saying; ‘go back to your country’, while she was in her Brooklyn neighborhood. Sadly for that man, the woman happened to be a decorated police officer who was off-duty at the time the incident took place.

According to the details of the incident provided, the officer, named Aml Elsokary was off duty in her Brooklyn neighborhood on Saturday when she encountered a man yelling and pushing her 16-year-old son. When she tried and stop the assault, the man referenced the militant Islamic State group and then threatened to slit her throat.

Elsokary is a New York officer who joined the police force after the 9/11 attack to show the world that despite being a Muslim, she also felt the pain of the country and wanted to make a difference in the world.

She told reporters during a news conference with the city’s mayor on Monday that this was the first time ever that she had faced such hatred.

“I became a police officer to show the positive side of a New Yorker, a Muslim woman, that can do the job,” Elsokary said.

“I help everybody, no matter what your religion, what’s your faith, what you do in New York. I’m born and raised here.”

The man who made the threat was identified as 36-year-old Christopher Nelson, and he was arraigned on Monday on a felony charge of menacing as a hate crime.

Incidents of hate crime have been on a rise ever since Donald Trump became the president of United States.

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