Local activist threatened with beheading outside Bay Ridge mosque
The 68th Precinct arrested 45-year-old Brian Boshell on Wednesday, September 3 after he allegedly threatened to behead Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY), while she was leaving her Fifth Avenue office in Bay Ridge.
“My Deputy Director and I were harassed and assaulted by a bigoted drunk who hurled hateful Islamaphobic and anti-Arab epithets at us,” wrote Sarsour on Facebook of the alleged attacks that took place around noon near the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge. “He said, ‘you are cutting people’s heads off sharmoota, I’m going to cut your head off and see how your people will feel, you Arab b-tch,’ and plenty more after that.
“He had some sort of item or tool in his back pocket (we could see the handle of it),” she went on, claiming that her attacker then picked up a metal New York City garbage can from the corner and threw it at the women, prompting them to run into oncoming traffic.
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