Girl harassed at high school for wearing "Free Palestine" shirt
An Arab-American student at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School said she was frisked by a school security guard this week after wearing a "Free Palestine" T-shirt and a Palestinian flag pin to class.
Yusra Awawdeh, 16, told the Daily News yesterday she was humiliated when the guard yanked her from Spanish class Tuesday and took her into a dean's office.
Yusra, an American of Palestinian descent, said a female school safety officer patted her down and told her to remove her shoes and socks while a female dean looked on.
The student said she was told to empty her pockets and that the guard also checked to see if she was hiding anything around her abdomen.
