Posted on 04/05/2024 5:34:27 PM PDT by lowbridge
New York City has agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two Muslim women who were forced to remove their hijabs for police mugshots.
Jamilla Clark and Arwa Aziz filed the class-action lawsuit in 2018 claiming they felt shamed and exposed and liked their treatment to be strip-searched.
'When they forced me to take off my hijab, I felt as if I were naked. I'm not sure if words can capture how exposed and violated I felt,' Clark said.
'I'm so proud today to have played a part in getting justice for thousands of New Yorkers.'
Clark was arrested at Manhattan Family Court on January 9, 2017, for allegedly violating a bogus protective order filed by her abusive former husband.
The complaint alleged the husband 'fabricated these charges to secure immigration status as a purported victim of domestic violence'.
Clark was arrested a different time on the same trumped-up charges, but they were dismissed.
The lawsuit said officers at Police Headquarters at One Police Plaza threatened to prosecute Clark, who was sobbing after they ignored her pleas, if she did not remove her head covering.
She claimed a police supervisor 'made numerous hostile comments about Muslims' after she refused to remove the hijab.
'Male officers touched Ms Clark repeatedly, even though she explained that such contact violated her religion, and denied her a place to wash for prayer and a place to pray,' the lawsuit read.
They agreed to let a female officer take the mugshot, but male officers watched on a security camera and five of them were showed the photo afterwards.
The lawsuit claimed Clark was so 'agitated and distraught by the coerced removal of her hijab' occurring while in custody that she was too afraid to wear one in public for the next
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One thing about France is that in their constitution, they have freedom from religion. The Muslims hate that because the French are cracking down on this sort of nonsense. In France, you have to be French!
I thought everyone knew that sharia law trumps US law. (s)
Clown World never peaks.
$17.5 million.
‘Nuff said.
Third world measures of justice.
Tough sh!t lady.
Your ugly face is used in biometrics for your identification just like your finger prints.
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What? you cant have any photos of any muslims? Sounds kinda stupid.
This way ragheads can cover up their entire bodies and do whatever they like and hide whatever they want under there
New York and other left-wing cities would never accommodate other religions in this manner.
“New York City” did not agree to this, An idiot sitting in an office, or several idiots sitting in offices agreed to it. Their salaries should go into the pot. New York Post needs to find out the names of the people who kicked dirt in the faces of their citizens.
The total fertility rate of the native French citizen is 1.8, well below replacement levels. What demographic’s fertility rate is exploding well past replacement levels with a kicker that natives subsidize this demographic life style? Secularism isn’t paying off as well as you think in France. By 10 years or so France’s Constitution won’t matter.
Well if it was a “bogus” protective order filed by her husband, prove it was bogus and send him the $17.5M bill.
Lawfare by greedy assault attorneys is poison to the health and welfare of the USA.
Morons
Sharia is gaining ground, do not be surprised if in a short time Muslim law will be over the constitution... It is urgent to reverse this trend, Trump is the hope to save the country
From the article:
The new policy extended to other religious headwear, including wigs and yarmulkes worn by Jews and turbans worn by Sikhs.
doomed
Do they keep the hijab on when they are strip searched and vaginal/anal cavity searched? Pro-lifers get that treatment praying inside a child killing center. Looking for pamphlets and prayer cards. Maryland.
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So if a “Man” claims to be a “Woman”; then she is a woman.
So if you claim to be Muslim; you are Muslim.
Therefore any thief can claim to be a Muslim Woman and can cover his face and the police can not do squat.
Science.
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