Firefighter arrested after 9/11 remembrance [View All]

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NEW YORK -- Hours after many New York firefighters gathered to mark the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, one of them was arrested for attacking an immigrant worker and telling him he looked ''like he's al-Qaida,'' police said.

Firefighter Edward Dailey was arrested Sunday on charges of criminal mischief and felony second-degree assault, Police Sgt. Kevin Farrell said.

He was released without bail. Despite the alleged al-Qaida remark, there was not enough evidence to charge him with a hate crime, authorities said.

Dailey, 27, is accused of breaking a piece of Plexiglas off a curbside newsstand and throwing it at a 51-year-old man who works there, Farrell said. Dailey had said the man, an immigrant from Bangladesh, looked ''like he's al-Qaida,'' Farrell said.