Despite Mayor de Blasio’s claims that he had a new vision for NYC and his dismantling of NYPD Muslim spying unit, his administration filed a brief in one of our cases just before midnight last night that vigorously defends the practice of spying on American Muslim communities without suspicion of wrongdoing.This was the first time since the de Blasio administration took office that the City has publicly taken a position in Hassan et. al v. City of New York, the Muslim Advocates and Center for Constitutional Rights case on behalf of New Jersey Muslims who were targeted and surveilled by the NYPD solely because of their faith. The administrations response is a broad-based defense of the entire mapping and surveillance program, including an assertion that the NYPD can single out an entire class of people on the basis of their religion and treat them differently. In effect, the City relies on the events of 9/11 to justify treating all Muslims in this country as second class citizens.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 21:34:50 +0000
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