NYPD Task Force investigating anti-Muslim crime at T.J. Maxx
BAY RIDGE — The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating a shocking anti-Muslim incident in an 86th Street clothing store on Saturday in which a woman shouted “Go back to your country!” at a hijab-wearing female and her husband, and then attempted to knock a cell phone out of the husband’s hand.
The ugly scene unfolded inside T.J. Maxx at 502 86th St., at around 1 p.m., according to police.
Mido Mourad, a 41-year-old Egyptian journalist living in New York, has stated in media interviews that he was shopping with his wife for winter clothes for their children and that both were standing at the store’s checkout counter when they were approached by a woman who shouted “Go back to your country!” The suspect also cursed at the couple.