The New York Times: Woman Tried to Drown 3-Year-Old Girl After Making Racist Comments, Police Say

At a news conference on Saturday, Mr. Carroll said that the Council on American-Islamic Relations was referring to the mother as Mrs. H, because she did not want to be publicly identified.

“We are American citizens, originally from Palestine, and I don’t know where to go to feel safe with my kids,” the mother said in a statement.

Mrs. H said that she had been wearing a hijab and modest swimwear while watching her children in the shallow end of a pool at the apartment complex where the family lives, when a white woman entered the pool area and made “racist interrogations” toward her.

The woman then jumped into the pool, grabbed the children and tried to drown them in the deep end of the pool, Mrs. H said. The mother said she jumped into the pool to try to save her children, and the woman snatched off her head scarf and kicked at her.

She said her daughter had been traumatized by the attack, and she now runs and hides when the apartment door is opened.