Police say Muslim woman made up story about attack on NYC subway

In another incident, police said a 27-year-old African American man in Volusia County, Fla., taped a note with “KKK” and “Trump” written on it to his girlfriend’s mailbox this week, then threw a brick through her vehicle window and spilled gasoline on her back seat because he was mad at her over a child custody battle.

But inconsistencies in her account surfaced once cops tried to confirm her story by pulling surveillance video. She would turn up safe and sound just 24 hours later, but her actions threw several red flags up for police. They camped out in front of our home for days and when my mother needed an ambulance a day after my sister was found they took pictures of her on the stretcher and reported that it was Yasmin.

According to detectives: Baruch College student Yasmin Seweid, 18, recanted her claim Tuesday.

The same week Seweid gave her story to police, two other Muslim women said they were verbally and physically attacked due to their faith.

Seweid had been having family problems because she is becoming “westernized” investigators claimed.

On Wednesday, 18-year-old Yasmin Seweid was arrested and booked by New York’s Hate Crimes Task Force – the same unit Gov. Andrew Cuomo created to combat such instances – after she admitted that she had made the entire incident up. Yasmin Seweid went on to admit in court she was not actually assaulted by white men, but that she was out partying and drinking past her curfew and was afraid of her parents’ reaction.

She appeared at the Manhattan Criminal Court without a veil and with her hair shaved, with the NY Daily News reporting that her parents had forced her to do so as a punishment over the incident.

NYPD officers investigated her story but found no evidence of it.

“Young kids”, he added, “you don’t understand their mentality”.

‘I’m not excusing what she did. He was afterwards arrested for lying to police and charged with breaking into cars and stealing valuables. “You’re a terrorist, go back to your own country”, the attacker allegedly told the woman, who was wearing a hijab and heading to work at the time.

Numerous news outlets – including Buzzfeed and local TV stations – ran the story as fact, citing the incident as an example of the alleged increase in anti-Muslim bias that has gripped the nation in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential win.

“We still believe that anti-Muslim harassment, discrimination and hate crimes are underreported and this one incident shouldn’t stand as a barrier to the numerous New Yorkers who need to come forward when something like this happens”, Cahn told CNN. Various cases of falsified statements have been reported involving anti-Muslim, anti-gay and anti-black incidents.

Despite Seweid’s false claims, a Muslim woman did really get attacked a few days later on a NYC Subway.