Posted on 09/19/2016 7:51:02 AM PDT by dead
The prime suspect in the New York and New Jersey bombings sued his local police force and claimed they were persecuting him for being a Muslim.
Ahmad Rahami said in a lawsuit that cops in Elizabeth, New Jersey subjected his and his family to discrimination and 'selective enforcement' based on their religion.
The family - who used the name Rahimi in the legal papers - claimed that police tried to shut down their chicken restaurant, called First American, too early each night with 'baseless' tickets and summonses.
Ahmad, 28, his father Mohammad Sr, 53, and his brother Mohammad, brought the lawsuit together and said that local residents also racially abused them and said: 'Muslims don't belong here'.
The lawsuit was filed in 2011 and reveals that Ahmad has a long history of grievances with city officials, their local police force and people who lived close to them.
Five years later Ahmad is now the most wanted man in America over his alleged involvement in the New York and New Jersey bombings.
The lawsuit, filed in the federal court in Newark, says that the family are from Afghanistan and are all Muslims who have owned the chicken restaurant since 2002.
From April 2009 for two years they allege that they were unfairly targeted for staying open past 10pm despite being permitted to do so.
The lawsuit says that the police had a 'reckless disregard and deliberate indifference for plaintiff's constitutional rights of liberty, due process and equal protection'.
The Elizabeth police department allegedly 'embarked on a course to harass, humiliate, retaliate against and force their business to close at 10pm'.
The lawsuit claims that the officers told them there was 'too much crime around here' and that the area around the restaurant was 'known for criminal activity'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well, there you have it . . .our “intolerance” made him do it
I probably wouldn’t want to eat chicken at his restaurant. Might have been good for him to get a job working for someone else, cause a lot of people have misgivings.... just saying.
Explains why he has so many pressure cookers.
Very possible - especially in NJ - a mini police state, but irrelevant. It doesn't excuse trying to blow up random people.
It’s probably really the neighbor’s cat.
If they only had pulled pork on the menu....
LOL.
Islam is not a religion. Religions don’t require you to kill your neighbor. Islam does. It’s a militaristic cult. Since its inception its followers have been attacking their neighbors because “allah commands it”.
Bet if you went far back enough you would see he was persecuted by his local school for making a clock that looked like a bomb.
Just because a complaint was filed does not make it valid. Note that it was dismissed “with prejudice”, meaning that it can never be filed again. The implication is that it was deemed frivolous.
It is not clear if there was a settlement.
Apparently, the UK reporter doesn't understand the US legal system.
"Dismissed with prejudice" means that the judge told them to get the hell out of his/her court, and don't come back again. It's reserved for people that abuse the legal system to harass others.
There was no "settlement", except perhaps to award legal costs to the defendant(s).
I wonder if they used pressure cookers to try to make the Colonel’s chicken?
EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK CITY, SEPT. 17, 2016
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Editor’s note: We are checking into reports on social media of a police-involved shooting in Linden, N.J. Linden borders Elizabeth, where investigators are searching for clues in the explosions in Seaside and New York City over the weekend. - Tricia
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The UK tabloids doing the work the US MSM won’t do.
Unless Elizabeth, NJ has gentrified significantly since the last time I was there in the late ‘90s I can’t imagine why any business there would want to be open past 10 PM - except maybe the curbside pharmacies.
Islam is an evil political ideology designed for only one purpose ... destruction of the civilized world. The Crusaders should have been better organized and destoyed this infestation when they had the chance.
I wonder which lawyer(s) brought the lawsuit.
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