bradley babendir
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writer (the baffler, the boston globe, bright wall dark room, etc) & photographer
writer (the baffler, the boston globe, bright wall dark room, etc) & photographer
![weeks following the attacks, there was a surge in incidents of harassment and hate crimes against South Asians, Middle Easterners, and anyone thought to be "Middle Eastern-looking"—particularly Sikhs, because Sikh males usually wear turbans, which are stereotypically and erroneously associated with Muslims by many Americans. Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh man, was one of the first victims of this backlash; he was shot dead on September 15 at the gas station he owned in Mesa, Arizona. Mark Anthony Stroman, a white supremacist, killed two men and injured a third in a shooting spree beginning September 15 in Dallas, Texas. His victims, including Bangladeshi American Rais Bhuiyan, were all targeted because they looked "of Muslim descent". His motive for the killings was revenge for the 9/11 attacks.[14] In New York City itself, the only death possibly related to post-9/11 hate violence officially recorded as a homicide was Henryk Siwiak, a Polish immigrant shot in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on September 11. His family theorized he may have been the victim of a hate crime in the wake of the attacks, since he was wearing camouflage clothing, had dark hair and spoke imperfect, heavily accented English.[15] The case remains unsolved; police are open to the family's theory but have not classified the killing as a bias crime.[16]
In many cities there were reports of vandalism against mosques and other Islamic institutions, including some cases of arson.[17][18][19][20][21] In the year after the attack, anti-Muslim hate crimes jumped 1,600 percent.[22] The FBI and other government agencies arrested and deported Arabs and Arab Americans in higher numbers after the attacks than before, often with limited or insufficient evidence to connect them to purported terrorism.[23]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_September_11_attacks#Backlash_and_hate_crimes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t7ojhsiy5cywzjjdvzq5pxjc/bafkreibfxofkmv4gm5v55dt76cr7z6ppnpgfxxd6h3muq4ji63bzx2bxlu)
