Bias attack in Brooklyn
A CREW OF hate-filled teenage girls attacked a Muslim woman at a Brooklyn eatery, calling her a terrorist as they punched her and spat on her, police said Friday.
Muslim community activist Souad Kirama was having coffee with a colleague inside the Panera Bread on Adams St. near Willoughby St. in Downtown Brooklyn when the girls began roughhousing with each other about 5:15 p.m. Tuesday.
“All I did was ask them to be quiet and they started attacking me and punching me in my back,” Kirama, 51, said between sobs on a Facebook live video after the attack. “People were just standing there watching me being beaten up and being called a ‘f---ing terrorist.’
The NYPD is investigating the incident as a hate crime.