By Alejandra Molina, RNS
A 26-year-old Muslim woman is suing the Los Angeles Police Department a year after she said officers forcibly removed her hijab.
The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday (Sept. 17) in the Central District of California, names the city of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore, police Detective Corey Harmon and four officers as defendants. …
On Sept. 17, 2019, officers handcuffed and searched Nusaiba Mubarak and forcibly removed her hijab at a police commission meeting held to discuss the fatal police shooting of Albert Ramon Dorsey, alleges the lawsuit, filed by the greater Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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