'I will cut your throat': Muslim cop and her son targeted by bigot
An off-duty police officer has been hailed as a hero after rushing to the aid of her Muslim son who was being pushed around by a Brooklyn bigot.
NYPD Officer Aml Elsokary, who proudly wears her hijab both on and off duty, had dropped her son off on a New York street and was parking her car when her 16-year-old son became the victim of a hate crime.
The mother-of-five returned to find a man in his 30s shoving her teenage son, telling him to "go back to your country".
"Isis [expletive], I will cut your throat, go back to your own country," the suspect yelled when she approached him.
He then fled the scene and police have been looking for him ever since.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has hailed the officer, who was unarmed at the time, for her bravery – adding to her already glittering resume.
Shortly after the September 11 terror attacks shook America and the world to its core, the mother opted to join the force in an effort to “show people that the terrible acts of that day contradicted the teachings of Islam”.
While in April 2014, she ran into a burning building after hearing a baby crying on the second floor, using her jacket to pry open a scalding door, rushing both the child and a distressed grandmother to safety.
“As both a Muslim and a native New Yorker, she knew she needed to get involved,” Mayor de Blasio said, heaping praise on the heroic officer, back in 2014.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit are now investigating the incident involving her son as a bias incident - a crime she has spent a decade working to eradicate.
