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Posted: 2017-03-24T16:54:17Z | Updated: 2017-03-24T17:09:29Z

In less than a week, at least two men in America have allegedly threatened to shoot Muslim women who were in public with their children.

San Francisco police announced Thursday that they had arrested Joshua Ruano, 27, for allegedly threatening to shoot a woman wearing a hijab on March 17. Ruano allegedly approached the woman, who was playing with her child in a park, and made anti-Muslim remarks. (A police spokeswoman wouldnt elaborate on those remarks.) He then threatened to shoot her, according to police.

The woman and her child fled the park and contacted police. Ruano was arrested a short time later.

A spokesman for the San Francisco district attorneys office confirmed that Ruano was arraigned this week on charges of making criminal threats with a hate crime enhancement, and other unrelated crimes.