California police probe attacks on Muslim students
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CALIFORNIA authorities were investigating a reported attack on a college campus of a Muslim student wearing a headscarf as a hate crime on Thursday.
San Diego State University’s police department said two suspects who assaulted the student on campus on Wednesday had targeted her because of her faith and made comments about Donald Trump’s election.
The woman was not hurt. Authorities said the assault occurred in a parking complex while the woman was wearing a hijab. The suspects stole her car keys, and the vehicle was later reported missing, they said.
“We condemn this hateful act and urge all members of our community to join us in condemning such hateful acts,” SDSU President Elliot Hirshman said in a statement.
A similar report came from Northern California, where a woman said she was walking in a parking garage at San Jose State University when a fair-skinned man in a hooded sweatshirt came up behind her and pulled at her head scarf, the university said in a statement.
The victim was briefly choked and lost her balance before the suspect ran away, it said.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Thursday issued a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, outlining laws that prohibit hate crimes.
Meanwhile, a Louisiana student said she fabricated a reported attack by two men, one she said wore a “Trump” hat. The Lafayette Police Department said in a statement it is no longer investigating the 18-year-old woman’s claims, which were made within hours of Trump’s presidential victory.
Police said the student told investigators she was walking near the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s campus Wednesday morning when she was accosted by two white men who drove up in a gray sedan.
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