NYPD Allegedly Removed Hijabs, Assaulted Two Women at Protest

The Council on American-Islamic Relations New York filed a federal lawsuit against New York City and individual police officers who the organization says assaulted and forcefully removed the hijabs of two women who participated in a protest in August.

The incidents are examples of “what appears to be a growing police practice of forcibly and publicly removing women’s hijabs at protests as a form of brutal crowd control through intimidation and religiously targeted violence,” says the lawsuit filed Sunday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The lawsuit seeks to enjoin the city, its agents, ...