Victims of anti-Arab hate crimes were also treated as terrorist suspects, eroding institutional trust

Evidence

This scene explores Arab/Muslim Americans facing a double plight: first they are victims of a hate crime and then they are treated with suspicion by the police. The Arab/Muslim American store owner is frustrated that he has been treated as a possible terrorist rather than a victimized American; as a result, he has no faith that the police and other government institutions will protect him. — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 451

Categorization

• XREF: The double-victimization pattern resonates with how criminalized minorities, e.g. Black Americans, face police suspicion when they report victimization.
• SHARE: For someone writing on surveillance and the racialization of victimhood — the specific mechanism of ‘treated as suspect rather than victim’.