'I will cut your throat': US Muslim cop, son harassed by man

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'I will cut your throat': US Muslim cop, son harassed by man

NEW YORK: Hailed as a hero by the mayor of New York, a Muslim NYPD officer and her 16-year-old son was threatened and yelled at to “go back to your country,” US media reported.

Officer Aml Elsokary, who was off duty and wearing her hijab, dropped off her son in Brooklyn. After parking her car, she returned to the scene to find her son being shoved by the suspect, a white man in his 30s.

When the officer -- a native New Yorker -- approached, the man said, “ISIS (expletive), I will cut your throat, go back to your country!”

Elsokary did not identify herself as a police officer, and was unarmed.

The suspect then fled the scene. Cops were trying to track him down Saturday night. The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is probing the episode as a bias incident.

Officer Elsokary — who proudly wears her hijab on duty in the 90th Precinct — was touted as a hero after she ran into a burning building to save an elderly man and baby girl in April 2014.

Responding to a call about a fire over the police radio, Elsokary and her partner rushed to a smoke-filled building on Scholes St.

After hearing a baby crying on the second floor, Elsokary — a mother-of-five — rushed up the stairs, used her jacket to pry open a scorching-hot doorknob and grabbed the frightened child.

She also scooped up the baby’s spooked grandmother and rushed them to safety.

Earlier this month, a Hijab-clad Muslim student was allegedly struck in the face with a glass bottle in broad daylight at the University of Washington campus in Seattle.

In another incident, a hijab-clad woman was allegedly accosted at a US store by another customer who called her a “terrorist” and told her to “get out” of the country.

Also, a Muslim student’s hijab was allegedly ripped off and her hair pulled down by a classmate at a school in Minnesota.