Reuters - New
York City agreed to pay $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit by two
Muslim-American women who said the police violated their rights after
arresting them by forcing them to remove their hijabs before being
photographed...The
settlement resolves a lawsuit filed in 2018 by Jamilla Clark and Arwa
Aziz, who said they felt shame and trauma when police forced them to
remove their hijabs for their mugshots the prior year in Manhattan and
Brooklyn, respectively... "When
they forced me to take off my hijab, I felt as if I were naked," Clark
said in a statement provided by her lawyers. "I'm not sure if words can
capture how exposed and violated I felt." In
response to the lawsuit, New York's police department agreed in 2020 to
let men and women wear head coverings during mugshots, so long as their
faces could be seen.
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