Mohamed Yusuf is fighting for his life after alleged attack by passenger who said he did not like driver\u2019s first name<\/p>\n
A Somali-American Uber driver was allegedly brutally assaulted by a passenger in Hopkins, Minnesota, on Saturday, in what his family says \u201cappears to be a hate crime\u201d.<\/p>\n
The driver, Mohamed Yusuf, is currently hospitalized and fighting for his life, his family told the Somali Brief<\/a>, a digital news site run by two Somali American journalists<\/a>. The driver\u2019s cousin, Abdinasir Ali told the outlet that the alleged attack took place early Saturday after a passenger in Hopkins, a suburban city south-west of Minneapolis, asked Yusuf\u2019s name and then said he did not like the name Mohamed.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mohamed Yusuf is fighting for his life after alleged attack by passenger who said he did not like driver\u2019s first name A Somali-American Uber driver was allegedly brutally assaulted by a passenger in Hopkins, Minnesota, on Saturday, in what his family says \u201cappears to be a hate crime\u201d. The driver, Mohamed Yusuf, is currently hospitalized … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}