By Bob Walsh
Yasmin Seweid is an 18-year old student at Baruch College in New York. She is now in police custody. (Actually she has probably been released by this evening, pending a trial date.)
She reported being harassed on the New York subway by three white men, allegedly vocal Trump supporters who called her a "fucking terrorist" and (again allegedly) attempted to tear her head scarf off. Also allegedly none of the other people on the car attempted to help her. At some point she disappeared and was reported missing by her parents, though she later surfaced at a friends house. She wasted many hours of police time going over video attempting to identify her claimed attackers. They never existed. She is now facing charges of filing a false police report.
In a similar case, with a "better" outcome, a Muslim student at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette reported being assaulted and robbed by two white men on election night following Trump's, however that student admitted to making the whole thing up and was not charged with filing a false report. The young Ms. Seweid election had numerous opportunities to come clean and did not.
She and her family are blaming the incident on a misguided attempt to avoid personal and family pressure and not on any political motive.
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