Man accused of assaulting teenager over hijab

Monday, November 30, 2015

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A 53-year-old University of Missouri graduate teaching assistant is accused of pulling a teenage family member out of a Columbia school because she wasn't wearing a traditional headscarf worn by some Muslim women.

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