NYC Ordered To Pay Out $180K To Three Muslim Women For Requiring Them To Remove Their Hijabs For Their Mugshots

Good grief NYC.

According to this, NYC has been ordered to pay out $180K to three Muslim women for requiring them to remove their hijabs for their mugshots.

Settlements in the three cases were filed Monday in Brooklyn federal court, with the lawsuits spurring new NYPD procedures on photographing people donning religious head coverings.

The cases date back as far as 2012, when a Brooklyn high school girl identified as “G.E.” was arrested after a scuffle with two girls she thought were spreading rumors about her.

The criminal case was dismissed, but it was the initial mug shots that mattered in the civil rights case that followed.

G.E. initially refused to remove her hijab for the mugshot, and they were all “screw you!” Just kidding. A female officer took G.E. into another room and took her photo away from all the men. I feel like that’s really accommodating.

G.E. was taken to the 62nd Precinct, which covers such neighborhoods as Bensonhurst, Mapleton and Bath Beach, where police told her she’d have to take off her hijab.

But it was a different story at Brooklyn central booking. They told her there were no females available to accommodate her, and the camera couldn’t be moved. She had to take off her hijab in the presence of men. The HORROR.

Her suit said she felt “exposed, violated and distraught” being forced to take off her headscarf for some 20 minutes as male police and prisoners watched.

Court rulings show in March 2015, police issued an order that changed the rules when people refused to take off religious head coverings. Arresting officers had to tell the person they had the choice of getting a private photo — without the head covering, and with an officer of the same gender.

In 2015 and 2016, G.E.’s lawyer, Tahanie Aboushi, filed two similar cases — both for incidents that happened after the new police rules on head coverings.

One woman said she had to remove her veil at Brooklyn Central Booking. Another said her hijab was removed at the scene of her arrest, where she was knocked unconscious in an altercation with a neighbor over a parking spot.

So now, all of those women are getting $60,000 each.

NYC has fallen. https://t.co/BHzDPzZZbj

— David Vance (@DVATW) February 28, 2018

New York City will have to pay out $180,000 to three Muslim women after forcing them to take off their hijabs for mugshots. Wrong, New York RESIDENTS will pay $180k because of stupid liberal allowances. https://t.co/9msFbjTfU4

— Zing (@zingars) February 28, 2018

… Here is another one for you: New York City is ordered to pay $180K to three Muslim women for forcing them to remove their hijabs for mugshots…to this I say "this country has gone MAD!

— DJP (@LHS440Dan) February 28, 2018

That pretty much makes them the most privileged people on earth.

— Pat Patriarch (@VIPatriarch) February 28, 2018

New York City will pay $180k to Muslim women forced to take mugshots without hijabs in front of men https://t.co/vRO7ZHWcxF
Meanwhile in #Iran
Women protesting against wearing the hijab will be charged with inciting PROSTITUTION & jailed for up to ten years.#MAGA🇺🇸#PaP ✌

— BluRaʎ🥕🐰👌🇬🇧 (@IanPhilTrait) February 28, 2018

American Muslim women have no idea how blessed they are. That’s what gets me going. There are women in the Middle East who would do anything to rip that symbol of oppression off.

h/t NY Daily News