Muslim teen arrested for lying about attack by Trump supporters in NYC

Yasmin Seweid admits she lied that three drunk, white men shouted Trump's name while attempting to remove her hijab

An American-Muslim teen who claimed she was attacked by 'drunk' Donald Trump supporters in NYC was arrested Wednesday after admitting she made up the story.



Yasmin Seweid, 18, had told police on December 1 that three drunk, white men shouted the president-elect’s name while attempting to remove her hijab while riding the New York City subway. In a post on her Facebook account, which has now been deleted, she claimed the men shouted, “Look, it’s a ****ing terrorist” and “Get the hell out of the country!”



She also wrote, “Trump America is real and I witnessed it first hand last night! What a traumatising night.”

According BuzzFeed News, police was unable to locate witnesses or a video of the incident and on Tuesday, Seweid admitted she made up the story “because of family problems.” As a result, police arrested her on Wednesday for reporting a false incident and obstructing government administration.



The woman’s father told DNAinfo she was “young and maybe she was foolish here.”

Since Trump’s win, the Southern Poverty Law Center has had more than 800 reports of hate crime against Muslims and other minorities. Hate crimes against Muslims surged by 67% in 2015, according to statistics released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a rise which experts say was fuelled by acts of extremism abroad and anti-Muslim rhetoric in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, The Guardian reported in November.

This article originally appeared on Buzz Feed.