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A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racial statements, according to police.

The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations identified the family as Muslim and Palestinian and called on state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the incident “as a hate crime and take all precautions to keep the Muslim family and the Muslim community safe,” the organization said in a news release Friday.

On May 19, Euless Police Department officers responded to a call at an apartment complex pool regarding a disturbance between two women. Witnesses told officers “a woman who was very intoxicated had tried to drown a child and argued with the child’s mother,” police said in a news release.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago

Texas Rep. Salman Bhojani said he is “shocked and appalled by this alleged racist, Islamophobic occurrence that took place in my town,” according to the news release.

Do... do you know what state you're in?

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago

This wouldn't have occurred had the Ten Commandments been posted poolside.

[-] nulluser@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago

Sadly, there are people that would completely agree with this statement, and not detect an ounce of sarcasm.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago

The victim was a Palestinian American. They shouldn't bury that in the article. Completely irresponsible.

[-] penguinsAreRapists@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

Why couldn't covid kill all these stupid hateful people off???

[-] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I mean, it was. Covid was literally killing all the old people until our gerontocratic government stuffed them full of vaccines. Trump supporters were dying at 2 or 3 times the rate of the general population.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Fucking hell. What kind of evil piece of garbage pushes a child's head underwater?

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 6 points 5 months ago

Even if you did it for literally a second, I would have been traumatized as a kid. I was nervous in water and hate having my head under it.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Elizabeth Wolf, you are a piece of shit

[-] AThing4String@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Wow that's a smug mug shot, holy moly.

That's someone who does NOT think they just got caught saying the quiet part.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

How long until Abbott pardons her and says she was acting in self defense and had a reasonable fear for her life?

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I hope this woman suffers evil pos.

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