A 19-year-old student from Indiana University was arrested over the weekend after allegedly attacking a Muslim woman.
Witnesses claim that Triceten Bickford began shouting ethnic slurs at the 47-year-old woman and her 9-year-old daughter while they sat inside the Sofra Cafe on Saturday night. The teen began screaming “white power” and kill them all” before attacking her, WTTV-TV reported.
Bickford slammed the woman’s head into the table and attempted to remove her headscarf as the her husband rushed to the scene. The outlet reports that another man helped the husband pin Bickford to the ground as he spit in their faces and threatened them.
After his arrest, the teen kicked at the patrol car’s windows and bit an officer on the lower leg at the Monroe County jail.
Bickford faces the following charges: One count of intimidation, one count of public intoxication, two counts of misdemeanor battery, one count of felony-level battery, one count minor consumption of alcohol and one count strangulation.
Raw Story reports that Bickford's social media accounts
The teen’s bail was set at $2,000.
