NYPD Muslim cop targeted with bias slurs hailed as hero by father whose daughter she saved

Rasa - As cops arrested a Brooklyn man they say shouted anti-Muslim slurs and threatened an off-duty hero cop wearing a hijab in Brooklyn, the father of a girl she saved from a fire expressed sympathy for her.

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Date: 05 December 2016 - 23:42

RNA - As cops arrested a Brooklyn man they say shouted anti-Muslim slurs and threatened an off-duty hero cop wearing a hijab in Brooklyn, the father of a girl she saved from a fire expressed sympathy for her.

“She’s my hero no matter what religion she’s from,” Felipe Arroyo, 41, said of Officer Aml Elsokary, 34, who pulled his daughter Kayleigh and his mother Carmen Delrio, 60, from a burning apartment building in Brooklyn in 2014.

“She's always been my hero for saving my daughter.”

Cops charged Christopher Nelson, 36, of Bay Ridge on Sunday with threatening Elsokary during a shoving match Thursday with her 16-year-old son, officials said.

Elsokary had just parked her car in her neighborhood when she spotted the tussling near Ridge Blvd. and 67th St., officials said.

When Elsokary intervened, the man called her an “ISIS (expletive),” and threatened, “I will cut your throat. Go back to your country!” police said.

Nelson had a pit bull with him when he made the threat, and commanded the dog to attack — but the canine didn’t do anything, a police source said.

He was charged with menacing as a hate crime and aggravated harassment, police said.

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