{"article":{"id":294404,"heading":"Islamophobia","author":"Hatem","created":"2016-12-22 03:07:56","modified":"2017-02-02 16:16:29","last_modified":"Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:16:29","article":"

A woman who told police she was attacked by drunk Donald Trump supporters while riding the New York City subway was arrested Wednesday for allegedly fabricating the entire incident, authorities said.

Yasmin Seweid, 18, told police and the New York Daily News that she was harassed by three drunk white men who shouted the president-elect’s name while attempting to remove her hijab on Dec. 1.

“Look, it’s a fucking terrorist,” she alleged they said in a Facebook post. “Get the hell out of the country!” (Her entire Facebook account has since been deleted.)

The Brooklyn-born woman also alleged that no other commuters came to her aid.

“Trump America is real and I witnessed it first hand last night! What a traumatizing night,” she wrote.

Police had said they were investigating the incident, and on Wednesday an NYPD spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that Seweid had been arrested for obstructing government administration and reporting a false incident.

Sources told DNAinfo New York that officers had spent “significant NYPD resources” trying to verify Seweid’s story but could not locate witnesses or video of the incident.

The woman reportedly recanted her story on Tuesday, DNAinfo reported, allegedly saying she made up the story because of family problems.

The woman’s father told DNAinfo she was “young and maybe she was foolish here.”

<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"NYPD confirms they've arrested Yasmin Seweid, who said she was attacked on subway, for filing false report\r\nYasmin Seweid was arrested on Dec. 14 for filing a false police report and obstructing government administration, police said. ","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2016\/12\/294404.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":294405,"heading":"More Islamophobia","article":"Another anti-Muslim hate crime has been debunked, this one in Ann Arbor, Michigan, after a Muslim student\u2019s claim that she was threatened for wearing her Muslim headscarf was discovered to be a hoax.\r\nPolice now say a false report was filed by a Muslim University of Michigan student, who told police several weeks ago that a man threatened to light her on fire if she did not remove her hijab as she walked down the street in Ann Arbor. The unidentified student claimed her assailant was a white man, whom she insisted sounded like he was drunk, Fox 2 reported.\r\n\r\nSchool officials issued a \u201csafety alert\u201d to students, and police immediately launched an investigation into her hate crime report.\r\n\r\nHowever, a review of surveillance video from businesses along William and State Streets, the area the woman said the assault took place, provided no evidence of a man matching the description she provided. Even more damning, no evidence was found that even she had been there that day.\r\n\r\nThis week, Ann Arbor Police Lt. Matthew Lige said there was not enough evidence to substantiate the woman\u2019s claim, and the incident is now being deemed a hoax.\r\n\r\nOfficials are weighing whether the woman will be charged with filing a false police report. She may also be hit with a felony charge because her report of \u201cethnic intimidation\u201d is itself a felony","author":"Noor","parent_id":294404,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2016-12-22 03:09:08","modified":"2017-01-08 09:17:36","fileurl":""},{"id":294406,"heading":"Louisiana student \u2018fabricated\u2019 story of hijab attack, police say","article":"A student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette fabricated a story that she was attacked and had her hijab rippped off, police said Thursday.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe attack was one of several reported in the wake of Donald Trump\u2019s election victory.\r\n\r\nIn a press release Thursday afternoon, the Lafayette Police Department said that during the course of their investigation into the woman\u2019s complaint, she \u201cadmitted that she fabricated the story about her physical attack as well as the removal of her hijab and wallet by two white males.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis incident is no longer under investigation\u201d by the department, the statement said.\r\n\r\n\r\nA Muslim student at San Diego State University was robbed and may have had her car stolen Wednesday by two men who made comments about President-elect Donald Trump and Muslims, according to police and university officials, who called the attack a hate crime.\r\n\r\nIn a separate incident Wednesday, a female student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette claimed to have been beaten, robbed and had her hijab ripped off by two men, one of them wearing a white \u201cTrump\u201d hat, police and university officials said.\r\n\r\nBut on Thursday, Lafayette police said that during their investigation, the woman admitted fabricating that story.\r\n\r\nThe SDSU student was walking to her car about 2:30 p.m. when two men accosted her in the stairwell of a campus parking building and \u201cmade comments about President-elect Donald Trump and the Muslim community,\u201d campus police said in a statement. The men grabbed the woman\u2019s purse and backpack, and removed her car keys before fleeing, police said.\r\n\r\nThe woman, who was not injured, left the area to report the attack, police said. When authorities arrived on the scene, they said, her car was missing.\r\n\r\nPolice described the suspects as a white male between 20 and 25 years old and a Hispanic male about the same age. Investigators are treating the incident as a hate crime, robbery and vehicle theft.\r\n\r\nThe SDSU Muslim Student Association said the victim was a Muslim student wearing a hijab and \u201cfull Islamic garb.\u201d The group is planning a demonstration next week to protest Trump\u2019s victory, saying his campaign has encouraged discrimination against blacks and Muslims.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe are calling on all students, faculty, staff, and community members to come and show solidarity with our sister that was attacked and also stand against anti-Blackness, Islamophobia, and all other forms of discrimination that have become increasingly normalized during the campaign and now election of Donald Trump,\u201d the group said on Facebook. \u201cIt is time we make it clear that the hate and racism of Donald Trump will not find a home in San Diego.\u201d\r\n\r\nUniversity President Elliot Hirshman said in a statement that the victim appeared to have been targeted because of her Muslim faith.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe condemn this hateful act and urge all members of our community to join us in condemning such hateful acts,\u201d Hirshman said. \u201cHate crimes are destructive to the spirit of our campus and we urge all members of our community to stand together in rejecting hate.\u201d\r\n\r\nHours earlier, Hirshman sent out a statement calling on members of the university to \u201censure fair and equitable treatment of all members of our community\u201d in the wake of the election, the independent student newspaper reported.\r\n\r\n ","author":"Noor","parent_id":294404,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2016-12-22 03:18:59","modified":"2016-12-22 03:18:59","fileurl":""},{"id":294423,"heading":"Field Gide to White Supremicists","article":"Know your White Supremacists","author":"Tom Vee","parent_id":294404,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2016-12-24 07:26:52","modified":"2017-01-08 09:17:09","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ws.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ws.jpg"}},{"id":294896,"heading":"Michigan man made up story of mother dying in Iraq after Trump travel ban, imam says","article":"\r\nA Michigan man falsely claimed his mother died in Iraq after President Donald Trump's travel ban went into effect, a local imam said Wednesday. \r\nMike Hager, the man said that his mother was stranded at an Iraqi airport after Trump's executive order barring immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries went into effect on Saturday.\r\n\r\n"They destroyed us. I went with my family, I came back by myself," Hager said. "They destroyed our family."\r\nHowever, a local imam, Husham Al-Hussainy, clarified to the Fox affiliate that Hager's mother had actually died on January 22, five days before Trump signed the executive order. Al-Hussainy said Hager's mother had been receiving treatment for kidney disease in Michigan. \r\nSince Trump's election in November, there have been several incidents in which local officials have said individuals embellished incidents related to the president.\r\nA Muslim teenager who reported being harassed on the New York City subway by supporters of Trump fabricated the story in December, police said. And an 18-year-old student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette who claimed that she was assaulted and robbed by two white men in the morning after Trump's election admitted to police she fabricated the incident. 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