RTA Muslim woman, and human rights lawyer has taken her accusations of NYPD’s abuse and racism to court, following her violent detention over blocking the sidewalk after a pro-Palestinian demonstration in New York.
The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday, with Chaumtoli Huq stating that the policemen used “unreasonable and wholly unprovoked force,” the Telesur media outlet reported.
42-year old Chaumtoli Huq was arrested in July, right after the pro-Palestinian event, while she was waiting for her kids to use the WC. The police officer told her to keep moving.
“I’m not in anybody’s way. Why do I have to move? What’s the problem?” Huq asked the police.
Afterwards, police officer Ryan Lathrop and his partner, “without any legal basis, grabbed Ms. Huq, turned her and pushed her against the wall and placed her under arrest,” according to the lawsuit.
“At that point I didn’t know what was happening. I was just thinking, ‘What’s going on?’ and all of a sudden the officer flips me [around]…he [turns] my body and presses me against the wall of the restaurant. He shoved my left arm all the way and kept pushing it and handcuffed me. At that point I just like instinctively yelled ‘Help!’ because I was alone,” the woman recalls as cited by Gawker.
She also claims they went through her purse without probable cause.
What’s more, the suit alleges that the officer told Huq “in America, wives take the names of their husbands,” when he found out she had a different last name than her husband.
Huq then asserts that that her detention is “characteristic of a pattern and practice of the NYPD in aggressive over policing of people of color and persons lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights.”
“My civil rights were violated. I think that I was treated differently because of being a woman. I think I was targeted once my husband left. I think that I was being targeted based on my religion and my race,”Huq told Gawker.
Eventually, Huq was charged with obstructing governmental administration, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, and there was an adjournment to review dismissal of the charges.
Huq has decided to use her experience to “raise awareness about over policing in colored communities of color. I want there to be a dialogue on policing and community relations.”
““I’m not in anybody’s way. Why do I have to move? What’s the problem?” Huq asked the police.
Afterwards, police officer Ryan Lathrop and his partner, “without any legal basis, grabbed Ms. Huq, turned her and pushed her against the wall and placed her under arrest,” according to the lawsuit.”
What she failed to fathom was the fact that you never EVER question the authority of the cops. For ANY reason.
She was in HIS way, simply by not complying with his order IMMEDIATELY!
And if this was a Pro-Israel rally, no one would be arrested and those interfering with the Jews would be arrested. It’s the same shit over and over again. We all know who’s in control of our country. The ZIONIST JEWS!!
Hang ’em all!!! 😡
““My civil rights were violated. I think that I was treated differently because of being a woman. I think I was targeted once my husband left. I think that I was being targeted based on my religion and my race,”Huq told Gawker.”
Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! (shaking my head)
When are people going to realize that it has nothing to do with “targeting” and everything to do with the fact that there is NO LAW!! We are at war!
We are ALL being “targeted” for death in a ditch with a bullet in the back of our heads if we don’t stop this madness by force! If you’re not a Zionist Jew, they will look for an excuse to round you up and KILL YOU!!! Get it through your heads, people!!! WAKE UP!!
This has nothing to do with race as it is one of the American police standard actions Nationwide. To grab people and throw them to the ground with out even speaking to them or if spoke to. Just to let all know they are the police and can. I know a case were I use to live wer they trew a 70 year old man to the ground with no reason at all but he was walking to his car in a private parking lot. Then when he complained they said or ordered the officers involved to come to his house and apologize for there actions. The officers even ordered by those above them still rfusd to show up and apologize for such. Such is just every day every hour every min. around the Great American Cop.
If it were a pro-Israel demonstration there would have been no arrests and everyone would get free koolaid!