Brooklyn's Borough President Wants Trump to Meet With Local Muslim Cops

BROOKLYN, NY — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams sent a letter to President-Elect Donald Trump last week requesting the incoming head of state to meet with Aml El Sokary, a Muslim cop who says she was the victim of a hate crime in Brooklyn on Dec. 3, as well as other members of the NYPD's Muslim Officers Society.

According to the NYPD, El Sokary, a transit cop in Williamsburg who covers her head with a scarf, known as a hijab, had to fend off a man in Bay Ridge who started shoving her 16-year-old son in Bay Ridge.

According to the New York Daily News, the man also reportedly called her an "ISIS (expletive)," and said, "I will cut your throat, go back to your country!” El Sokary was born in New York City.

At an NYPD press conference on Dec. 5, El Sokary said she joined the NYPD "to show the positive side of a Muslim woman who can do this job," adding that, "I help everybody, no matter what's your religion."

In his letter to Trump, sent on Dec. 6 (and embedded below), Adams wrote of the "deep tensions that have persisted around our great country in the weeks following a long and arduous national election," resulting in "a disturbing and dangerous pattern of hate crimes in big cities and small towns across America, especially here in our hometown of New York City."

According to the NYPD, reported hate crimes are up 35 percent in 2016 compared to the year before. The department also reported that between election day and early December, 43 bias attacks in the city had been recorded, compared to 20 during the same period in 2015. Of those attacks, 24 were anti-Semitic, as reported by NY1.

"Without a doubt, the rhetoric of this campaign season has been a driving factor in a large number of these incidents," Adams wrote in his letter to Trump.

"You have been vocal in your respect for the law enforcement community," he continued. "As such, I hope you will accept my request for you to meet with NYPD Officer Aml [El Sokary]...The 900 Muslim-American members of our nation's largest police department...deserve guidance on how they will be protected amid this uncertain national climate, just as they protect our streets every day regardless of the changes in the political landscape."

Adams spokesman Stefan Ringel said that as of Dec. 12, the borough president had yet to receive a "direct repose" to the letter.

You can read Adams' full letter below:

Eric Adams letter to President-elect Trump, 12-6-16 by JVS Patch on Scribd

[H/T Yahoo! News]

Pictured at top: Aml El Sokary, left, and NYPD Chief James O'Neill. Image courtesy of the NYPD.