Pocharapon (Mos) Neammanee covers crime at HuffPost. Previously he wrote for BuzzFeed News and Insider's breaking news teams. His email is [email protected].
A Muslim advocacy group on Friday called for a hate crime investigation after a Texas woman allegedly tried to drown a 3-year-old Palestinian American girl in a swimming pool.by the Council on American-Islamic Relations as a “White American woman,” was arrested May 19 and initially charged with public intoxication, according to aAccording to CAIR, the incident began when the 3-year-old’s mother, who wears a hijab, was at the pool with her Muslim family.
At one point, Wolf jumped into the pool to pull Mrs. H’s daughter and 6-year-old son into the deep end, CAIR said. The boy managed to pull away, but Wolf then allegedly attempted to force the 3-year-old underwater.When Mrs. H tried to rescue her daughter, Wolf “snatched off the mother’s head scarf and used it to beat the mother as well as kicking her to keep her away while forcing her daughter’s head underwater,” CAIR said.
Witnesses told officers that Wolf appeared intoxicated at the time of the incident. Mrs. H’s two children were medically evaluated and cleared after the ordeal, police said.
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