Community Calls for Hate Crime Investigation Following Assault on Muslim Student at UW
Source: Seattle Weekly
Around 5:45 p.m. on November 15, a Muslim student was smashed in the face with a glass bottle near the northeast entrance to Mary Gates Hall on the University of Washington campus, according to a UW police report.
The suspect, who the female victim described as male, in a black sweatshirt, hit her on the right cheek near her eye, then fled, taking the bottle with him. She was in too much pain to provide police with a written statement immediately, but, as was announced during a press conference Monday at UW’s Red Square, she suffered heavy bruising, swelling, and a concussion. The young woman was wearing a headscarf at the time of the attack. The UW police investigation is ongoing.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations-Washington (CAIR-WA) say it’s clear that the assault could be a hate crime — in part thanks to the spate of anti-Muslim attacks in this state and across the country in 2015 and 2016. But the UW incident is not necessarily being investigated as one. No campus alerts were issued following the attack, and there were no public call-outs from UW officials asking students and staff if they’d seen anything that night.
“We really want to figure out what happened and why,” said CAIR-WA executive director Arsalan Bukhari on Monday during a press conference CAIR-WA organized in reaction to what it perceives as an ineffective initial response from UW authorities. “The first thing we wanted to have happen was for the police department to send an immediate notification out to the public and the campus [student] body, saying that something like this had happened, and that if they had seen anything they should come forward and report, so that person can be caught,” said Bukhari in an interview following the press conference. “And that hasn’t happened yet. That’s why we wanted to put this public call out today. We really want to make sure this is taken seriously.”
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