Columbus Police Will Not Investigate Rahma Warsame's Attack As a Hate Crime
Ohio police have determined that they will not investigate the brutal attack of a Somali-American woman, Rahma Warsame, as a hate crime.
DIASPORA—The Columbus, Ohio police division have determined that they will not investigate the brutal attack of a Somali-American woman, Rahma Warsame, as a hate crime, despite intense urging from local activist group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
<p>CAIR released a statement over the weekend, reporting Warsame's assault, in which she sustained several injuries. The group urged that the incident be investigated as a hate crime, as it was believed to have occurred after Warsmae stepped in to defend a fellow Muslim woman who was being racially harassed by a white supremacist. There was no arrest made at the time.</p><p>Yesterday, the Columbus police department released <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbusPolice/status/871790124429975552/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fentry%2Fsomali-woman-beaten-columbus-ohio_us_5935e10be4b0cfcda916fe49">a statement</a> in which they cited a lack of sufficient evidence and conflicting stories, stating that officers responded to reports of child abuse and a possible kidnapping on Saturday.</p><p><div class="preroll-video"></div><ora-player></ora-player></p><p>According to the police report, "there is no evidence at this time suggesting that the incident involved any type of bias which would constitute the incident being tried as a hate crime."</p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p></p><p dir="ltr" lang="en">6/5/17 NEWS RELEASE - 2800 PINELLAS COURT. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CPD?src=hash">#CPD</a> <a href="https://t.co/1JrXIl4zOr">pic.twitter.com/1JrXIl4zOr</a></p><p>— Columbus Ohio Police (@ColumbusPolice) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbusPolice/status/871790124429975552">June 5, 2017</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></p>
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