Video: Man Believed To Be Postal Worker Wanted In Alleged Hate Crime On Muslim Women In Brooklyn

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Police on Monday night were investigating an alleged hate crime in Brooklyn that was caught on security video.

As CBS2’s Tony Aiello reported, two Muslim women said a man yelled and spat at them – and the suspect is believed to be a U.S. postal worker.

The incident happened this past Friday evening on busy Nostrand Avenue, near Halsey Street, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It was captured by surveillance videos at the NBA Deli Grocery.

The two Muslim women, wearing traditional headscarves as one of them pushed a stroller with a baby, were accosted by a man on the sidewalk.

“He approached them and started harassing them, assaulting them, and even spat on them,” said Sadyia Khalique of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Read more

Also see: 2 MUSLIM SISTERS SAY POSTAL WORKER HARASSED THEM AND SPAT ON THEM

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