No Evidence of Hate Crime Against Virginia Muslim High School Student: Police

No Evidence of Hate Crime Against Virginia Muslim High School Student: Police
A police car is parked outside as people visit Mosaic Shopping Center Mall Fairfax, Vir., on October 30, 2021 in . Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
Reporter
|Updated:

There’s no evidence that an alleged assault on a female Muslim high school student in Fairfax, Virginia was a hate crime, local police said.

The Dec. 14 incident involved a male student at Fairfax High School, who reportedly pushed a female Muslim student to the ground, pulled off her hijab, and beat her up, while calling her racial slurs, according to the advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).