A man who authorities said shouted "go back to your country" at a Muslim woman wearing a religious head covering may have picked the wrong target: a decorated New York City police officer. "I became a police officer to show the positive side of a New Yorker, a Muslim woman, that can do the job," Elsokary said. The man accused of making the threat, Christopher Nelson, 36, was arraigned Monday on a felony charge of menacing as a hate crime. Mayor Bill De Blasio said there are 900 Muslims serving as New York City police officers, on a force of about 36,000. ———This story has been corrected to show the last name of the officer is Elsokary, not Elsakary.

Source: ABC News December 05, 2016 13:30 UTC