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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:
On May 19, three American citizens were hanging out at their apartment complex swimming pool -- A mom and her two children, a little girl, 3, and a boy who was 7 years old.
The mom was Muslim, so she wore a modest swimsuit and a hijab.
This infuriated Elizabeth Wolf, a 42-year-old white woman,
who, upon arriving at the pool, began loudly berating the young mother,
using racial slurs to tell her she wasn’t welcome in white America.
Wolf then jumped into the pool and grabbed the two children, who were playing in the shallow end, 💥and tried to drown them.💥
With mom’s help, the little boy escaped with scratches from Wolf’s fingernails, but Wolf succeeded in dragging the 3-year-old girl into a deeper part of the pool and was repeatedly holding her head under water as the little girl began to drown.
A bystander intervened, jumping into the pool and rescuing the little girl; when police arrived and handcuffed Wolf, she screamed at the arresting police officer:
“Tell her I will kill her, and I will kill her whole family.”An eyewitness who was also in the pool with her own 7-year-old told a reporter for KDFW:
“That was like 10 seconds, but it felt like forever. She was like, ‘Help me! She’s killing my baby, she’s killing my baby!’”
The little girl was so traumatized by the incident that she’s now afraid to leave her family’s apartment. Her PTSD may well affect her for the rest of her life.
Can you imagine if that had happened to your child or grandchild?
The mom, whom news reports aren’t identifying to protect her from the other many violent racists daily encouraged by Trump and Texas Republicans, told the local media:
We are American citizens, originally from Palestine, and I don’t know where to go to feel safe with my kids. My country is facing a war, and we are facing that hate here. My daughter is traumatized; whenever I open the apartment door, she runs away and hides, telling me she is afraid the lady will come and immerse her head in the water again. Also, my husband’s employment is jeopardized, due to having to leave work to accompany me and our four kids whenever we have appointments and errands to run.