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Police find ‘no evidence’ of hate crime in Fairfax High School altercation

A City of Fairfax Police Department investigation has determined that a physical altercation at Fairfax High School on Tuesday was not a hate crime, according to a press release.

The investigation revealed there were no racial comments made by either student, according to police.

Police said that the female student confirmed “her hijab became partially undone during the altercation, exposing her hair.”

The female student told police that the information posted on several social media sites, stating that racial comments were used during the altercation were false, according to a City of Fairfax Police Department press release.

The investigation into the physical altercation is ongoing, according to police.

Hundreds of students from Fairfax High School in Virginia walked out in protest on Thursday morning to show their support for a student they say was attacked in an Islamophobic incident.

A Change.org petition calling on Fairfax school administrators to do more about the incident, which happened Tuesday, has garnered more than 19,000 signatures.

For Vietnam War Veterans Day, vets share stories and objects from the war

At an event for Vietnam War Veterans Day at the National Museum of the U.S. Army in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, soldiers who served in the war shared their stories, as well as some of the objects they brought back with them. March 29, 1973 was the day U.S. military command in Vietnam was disestablished, the last of combat troops departed Vietnam, and Hanoi began releasing the last acknowledged U.S. prisoners of war.
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