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Racially
charged
assaults
in the
Detroit
metro
area
continue
in the
wake of
Trump
victory
By
Wendell
Bryant
Tell Us
USA
ANN
ARBOR -
A Muslim
student
near the
University
of
Michigan
harassed
and
threatened
amid
racially
charged
outbursts
at
schools
and
universities
across
the
country
following
Donald
Trump's
presidential
election.
A man
told a U
of M
student
to
remove
her
hijab or
he'd set
her on
fire
with a
lighter
in on
State
Street
near
main
campus,
police
say.
The
university,
calling
it a
hate
crime,
said
the off-campus
incident
occurred
between
5:30-7
p.m.
Friday
in the
600
block of
East
William,
near
State
Street,
according
to the
alert.
A crime
alert
issued
by the
university
described
the man
as
white,
between
20 and
30 years
old with
an
average
height
and
athletic
build.
He also
had “bad
body
odor,”
and
“unkempt
appearance”
and was
“intoxicated
with
slurred
speech,”
according
to the
crime
alert.
The
Michigan
chapter
of the
Council
on
American-Islamic
Relations
said on
Saturday,
"the
alleged
attack
is just
the
latest
anti-Muslim
incident
reported
since
the
election
of
Donald
Trump as
president.”
"We are
actively
investigating,"
Ann
Arbor
Police
Sgt.
Patrick
Maguire
said
Saturday.
"We are
soliciting
information
from
anyone
who may
have
witnessed
this
incident."
Tell Us
USA and
other
media
outlets
identified
several
reports
of
racist
incidents
at
schools
since
Tuesday,
including
a group
chat
that the
Oklahoma
student
got
involved
with
aimed at
black
freshmen
at the
University
of
Pennsylvania,
Trump's
alma
mater.
University
of
Oklahoma
President
David
Boren in
a
statement
said the
student
has been
temporarily
suspended
as the
school
investigates
further.
"It
would
appear
this
matter
did not
originate
at the
University
of
Oklahoma,
but
started
elsewhere,"
Boren
said in
a
statement.
CAIR-MI
called
Saturday
for the
incident
to be
investigated
as a
hate
crime,
saying
the
"alleged
attack
is just
the
latest
anti-Muslim
incident
reported
since
the
election
of
Donald
Trump as
president."
"Our
nation's
leaders,
and
particularly
President-elect
Donald
Trump,
need to
speak
out
forcefully
against
the wave
of
anti-Muslim
incidents
sweeping
the
country
after
Tuesday's
election,"
said
Dawud
Walid,
executive
director
of the
Michigan
chapter
of the
Council
on
American-Islamic
Relations.
Anti-Trump
protests
have
taken
place
since
the
election
in
cities
including
Philadelphia,
Atlanta,
Chicago,
Los
Angeles,
Portland,
Oregon,
and New
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