by Jen Kirby

December 8, 2016

 

Add another awful incident to the string of apparent hate crimes in New York City: A Brooklyn man has been arrested after he reportedly tried to pull of a woman’s hijab after getting ticked off in an alleged road-rage incident.

Michael Isakharov, 40, also shouted anti-Muslim slurs at 22-year-old Gehad Elsayed after the two had a run-in on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn on the morning of November 14. Elsayed she was making room for a driver — now ID’ed as Isakharov — to pull into her lane on the boulevard, when she noticed him staring at her. According to her, Isakharov followed her, and at the intersection of Avenue C and Ocean Parkway, pulled in front of her car and boxed her in.

Full article:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/man-who-yanked-womans-hijab-is-charged-with-a-hate-crime.html