A Muslim Stanford University student was injured in a hit-and-run by a driver who allegedly yelled “fk you and your people,” and California police are investigating the incident as a racially motivated hate crime, the school said Sunday.
The victim was hit Friday afternoon by a driver who reportedly made eye contact with him before flailing and screaming out of an open car window, according to the Stanford Department of Public Safety.
She described the driver as a white man in his mid-20s, with short dirty brown hair, a short beard, and round-rimmed glasses. The car is reported to be a Toyota 4Runner.
“I never imagined being the victim of a hate-fueled attack,” the victim said in a statement to ABC News. “His screams of hatred … still ring in my ears.”
The student was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, but he said the psychological trauma from the attack will remain.
“The physical wounds will heal with time, but the emotional scars — the feeling of being targeted simply because of my physical appearance, heritage and beliefs — may linger.”
“As I lay in a hospital bed, struggling with a reality I never imagined, I reflected on the importance of spreading the goodness of love, and compassion in a world that seems to continue to succumb to hatred and prejudice,” he said.
Stanford University condemned the incident, calling hate crimes “morally reprehensible” in a statement.AP
Stanford University said it was “deeply disturbed” by reports of the incident, adding that “hate-based violence is morally reprehensible.”
“We condemn it in the strongest possible terms,” the school said.
The school faced criticism following the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel after banners calling the Jewish state an “occupation” were displayed on campus buildings.
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The school has removed the banner, but clarified that it did so “based on the location of the banner, not the content or viewpoint expressed,” while insisting it maintains a neutral position on the conflict.
It was the latest incident of violence to hit a US campus since fighting broke out in Israel after Hamas attacked the Jewish state on October 7.
Since then, a Jewish student at Columbia University has been beaten with a stick during an argument over the conflict.
At Cornell University, a student was arrested for threatening to kill a Jewish student.
Also, a student at Harvard University was physically harassed by pro-Palestinian protesters.
In Illinois, a 6-year-old Muslim boy was stabbed to death by his family’s landlord in a killing allegedly motivated by an ongoing conflict.
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