Two Sikh teens were allegedly assaulted and harassed by a group of teenagers at a Long Island mall. A 13-year-old was arrested and charged for aggravated harassment as a hate crime on Friday.
A 13-year-old was arrested and charged with a hate crime after allegedly assaulting two Sikh teens at a Long Island mall on May 29, according to a police report.
Yuvraj Bindra, 13, and his friend, Chaz Bedi, also 13, were at the shopping mall in Huntington, N.Y. when another group of teenagers allegedly began to verbally harass them, and Bindra recalled one attacker shouting,"Hey, Mohammed, come here. I'll knock that ball off your head," in reference to the Patka—Sikh head coverings—the teens were wearing.
Then one of the teens allegedly punched Bedi in the face. They told WABC that they ran and hid inside a clothing store, and then found their way into a Macy's department store, where a worker asked them if they needed help.Police reportedly found the teens back on the property a few hours later and detained them for questioning. WABC reported that the teenagers had tried to justify their actions by allegedly telling the mall security that the two Sikh teens were going to blow up the mall.
The teenagers were released to their parents later that night, and police had been investigating the incident as a hate crime. On Friday, Suffolk County police announced the arrest of a 13-year-old teen on a charge of aggravated harassment as a hate crime, WNBC reported.that"the teen will be arraigned at Suffolk County Family Court at a later date."
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