BUFFALO, N.Y.- A woman in Buffalo
is speaking out to authorities after witnessing three men egg two Muslim
teenagers who wore the hijab.

Their mother was waiting for them
to get off the school bus, when three men got out of their car and started
throwing eggs at the teenage girls.

“They started yelling, but I
couldn’t hear what they were saying,” the witness who wished to remain
anonymous told WKBW.

She believes they were targeted
because of the way they looked.

“There were a lot of kids on
the street,” she said. “They targeted those girls.”

The two men took off before she
says she could get to the girls. By the time she did, they were crying and
covered in eggs. 

She says she immediately called
Buffalo Police, and tried to get the girls to stay, but they spoke little
English and left the scene.

“I wanted them to know that
someone cared. There were a lot of other people in their cars. No one else got
out.”

The eyewitness was able to get the
license plate number of the vehicle the men took off in. One of the men also
left behind a cell phone, which was handed over to authorities.

“It was a hate crime. It
wasn’t violent but it certainly was humiliating and sad.”