×Tanveer Patel, a candidate for Hoover City Council Place 1, stands beside a board showing hateful and threatening comments toward her during a press conference in Birmingham, Alabama, on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025.

Hoover police said today they are investigating a harassing communications complaint filed by a candidate for Hoover City Council involving death threats because of her Indian heritage and Muslim faith.

Tanveer Patel, a candidate for Hoover City Council Place 1, said in a press conference today that in the past few days she has been receiving hateful messages, insults and even death threats on her campaign Facebook page because of her heritage and faith.

Several commenters criticized her decision to wear a hijab and encouraged her to go back to India, and one comment by someone

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