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Fort Lee High-Rise Tenant Charged With Bias Abuse Of Asian Woman Fort Lee High-Rise Tenant Charged With Bias Abuse Of Asian Woman
Fort Lee High-Rise Tenant Charged With Bias Abuse Of Asian Woman An Albanian man from Fort Lee was arrested after police said he repeatedly screamed "biased derogatory remarks” at an Asian woman in a high rise near the George Washington Bridge. The two were sharing an elevator at the Mediterranean Towers when Afrim Haxhaj, 31, began harassing the 41-year-old victim, Fort Lee Police Capt. Edward Young said. “The profane bias derogatory remarks directed towards her continued as she exited the elevator,” the captain said. Police arrested Haxhaj, charged him with two counts of bias intimidation and sent him to the Bergen County Jail following last Monday’s …

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