I wonder if Officer Aml Elsokary would have faced charges, had she fired on the ignorant bigot?
A Muslim off-duty NYPD officer who was honored as a hero by the Mayor and her 16-year-old son were targeted by a racist who yelled at them to “go back to your country,” according to the New York Daily News.
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 a white man in his 30s.
When the officer — a native New Yorker — approached, the man said, “ISIS (expletive), I will cut your throat, go back to your country!”
Elsokary, who was unarmed, did not identify herself as a police officer, while the cowardly man, now identified as Christopher Nelson, ran off.
Nelson, 36, of Brooklyn, was arrested late Sunday and charged with menacing as a hate crime and aggravated assault in the second degree, police said. He was led to court from the 68th Precinct station late Sunday.