NEW YORK – New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a social media threat against popular Muslim activist Lindah Sarsour, after a Brooklyn man asked for her address on a post in Facebook.
“This b—h is in Brooklyn,” the poster, identified on Facebook as Glenn Maccioli, said about Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American activist who is also the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, New York Daily News reported on Wednesday, February 22.
“Anyone know where (in Brooklyn)? I would like to spit in her face,” Maccioli posted.
A few Facebook commenters told Maccioli that Sarsour, the executive director for the Arab American Association of New York, has an office in the Bay Ridge neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Maccioli then invited commenters to watch him follow through on his threat.
“If I get the address I will tell you all where and when,” Maccioli wrote. “That’s my word.”
The threats were made in a comment on an article about Sarsour calling President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu two “bigoted peas in a hateful pod.”
The comments came during a protest in Washington, D.C., after the two world leaders met Thursday.
Sarsour, 36, was one of the main organizers of the historic march that followed President Trump’s inauguration.
She also created an online crowdfunding campaign to support a historic Jewish cemetery in the St. Louis suburb of University City, where vandals toppled more than 100 headstones over the weekend.
“What kind of sick human being do you have to be to do this?!” she tweeted on Monday.
Sarsour reported the posts to police on Friday, fearing that if Maccioli did find her home, he would do harm to her children.
In 2014, a man allegedly threatened and threw a trash can at her while she was leaving her workplace.