Indiana Student Arrested After Attacking Muslim Woman, Shouting ‘White Power’
An Indiana University student was arrested this past weekend for attacking a Muslim woman and shouting things like “white power” and “kill them all.”
The assailant, identified as 19-year-old Triceten Bickford, shouted at a Muslim woman who was sitting at a Bloomington café with her daughter. He reportedly grabbed her neck, slammed her head, and tried to forcibly pull off her headscarf.
The woman’s husband and another bystander pinned him down before the police showed up and arrested him.
Bickford is now saying he’s sorry for attacking the woman and doesn’t even remember the incident, claiming he was off his medication and had been drinking. He said, “I’m so sorry to that woman. I have no idea who she is, but words can’t explain how much that– I’ve never hurt someone like that before.”
Watch WTHR’s report above.
[h/t CBS News]
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