The victim, identified as Abdulwahab Omira, released a statement emphasizing spreading kindness in a world he said was 'succumbing to hatred and prejudice'
The victim, identified as Abdulwahab Omira, released a statement emphasizing spreading kindness in a world he said was "succumbing to hatred and prejudice"An Arab Muslim student was injured in a hit-and-run on the Stanford University campus that authorities are investigating as aOn Friday afternoon, the student was walking to class on the Palo Alto, Calif.
The SUV had a white California license plate with the letters M and J, with the M possibly being the first letter and the J in the middle. Amid the tension, the victim released a statement from the hospital calling for calm and understanding. On Friday, Stanford president Richard Saller and provost Jenny Martinez released a statement saying they were “profoundly disturbed to hear this report of potentially hate-based physical violence on our campus. Violence on our campus is unacceptable. Hate-based violence is morally reprehensible.”“The hours following the incident were agonizingly silent from the institution that I had trusted to be my safeguard,” Omira said in the statement, CNN reports.
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