An Ohio man has been arrested for allegedly lying to police about being the victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime.
Hesham A. Ayyad, 20, told the Cleveland Chamber of American-Islamic Relations that a driver hurled anti-Palestinian slurs at him and hit him with his car, according to an Oct. 23 CAIR press release. into the incident.
North Ridgefield police arrested Ayyad on Tuesday and said he lied about the encounter and that his injuries were the result of a fight with his brother, Cleveland.com reported.
Ayyad told CAIR officials that he was walking home from lunch near the border of Olmsted Falls and North Ridgeville around 4:10 p.m. when a vehicle slowed down next to him and the driver yelled statements such as “Kill all Palestinians,” and “Long live Israel,” at him. , according to a press release from CAIR.
“The driver then allegedly turned around and hit the man while shouting ‘DIE!'” wrote CAIR.
Hesham A. Ayyad, 20, is accused of lying to police about being the victim of an anti-Palestinian hate crime. North Ridgeville Police Department
The release included a photo of Ayyad lying in a hospital bed wearing a neck brace.
“We hope that the North Ridgeville Police Department and the FBI will gather all the information they need to charge this individual with a hate crime,” Faten Odeh, CAIR-Ohio, Cleveland’s Interim Executive Director, said at the time.
Ayyad told responding police officers he “had been hit by a vehicle and that the incident was racially motivated,” North Ridgeville police told Cleveland.com in a statement. He was taken to the hospital, police said.
Police said Hesham A. Ayyad was not the victim of a hate-motivated attack, but had been fighting with his brother, police said. North Ridgeville Police Department
Investigators reviewed video footage from the area and concluded that Ayyad had lied about being hit by the vehicle and lied about racial slurs, police said.
Police said “the injuries sustained at the time of the incident were the result of a violent fight that the victim allegedly participated in with his brother, which was confirmed by video surveillance of the area.”
Ayyad was arrested on Tuesday and charged with false alarm, forgery, obstructing official business, domestic violence and assault, according to Cleveland.com.
The Post has reached out to CAIR-Cleveland for comment on the arrest.
Ayyad’s 19-year-old brother, Khalil A. Ayyad, was also arrested and charged with domestic violence and assault, police said. The brothers are being held in the Lorain County Jail.
A spokesman for the Islamic Council told the outlet that they “do not know anything yet about the nature of the charges,” the statement said.
“Our understanding is that the brothers have obtained their own lawyers,” the spokesman said.
The incident is reminiscent of the Jussie Smollett fraud case, in which the actor was found guilty of making racist and homophobic attacks on himself and lying to Chicago police about it.
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