NYC Agrees To Pay Out Millions After Muslim Women Told To Remove Hijabs For Mug Shots

Robert SchmadApril 05, 2024

New York City will pay out $17.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by two Muslim women who claim their religious rights were violated when they were instructed to remove their hijabs for arrest photos, court records filed Friday show.

Jamilla Clark and Arwa Aziz sued the city in 2018 after they were arrested for violating protective orders and ordered to remove their head coverings so mug shots could be taken, according to court documents. The city agreed to a settlement with the two and, after accounting for legal and administrative fees, is expected to pay out just over $13 million split among people who were told to remove religious head coverings for mug shots between March 2014 and August 2021.

The New York Police Department amended its policy in 2020 to allow people to have their mug shots taken in religious headwear, so long as it doesn’t cover their faces, according to the New York Times.

“This settlement resulted in a positive reform for the NYPD,” a spokesperson for the New York City Law Department told the DCNF.

“The agreement carefully balances the department’s respect for firmly held religious beliefs with the important law enforcement need to take arrest photos,” the spokesperson continued. “This resolution was in the best interest of all parties.”

In New York City, authorities issue orders of protection to safeguard individuals from people who are “abusing, harassing, threatening, and/or intimidating” them, according to the New York Police Department.

NYPD declined to comment and referred the DCNF to the city’s law department.

Settlements will range from $7,824 to $13,125, according to a website maintained by lawyers representing the Muslim women. That settlement is subject to approval from Judge Analisa Torres of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the NYT reported.

“When they forced me to take off my hijab, I felt as if I were naked; I’m not sure if words can capture how exposed and violated I felt,” Clark said, according to the NYT.

Lawyers for Clark and Aziz estimate thatat least 3,600 people qualify for compensationunder this settlement, NYT reported.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/05/nyc-agrees-pay-millions-muslim-women-told-remove-hijabs-mugshots/

Judicial Watch Asks Court to Deny Biden Justice Department Request to Transfer Ashli Babbitt $30 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit from California to Washington, DC

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(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watchannounced today that it has asked a federal court to deny the U.S. Government’s request to transfer the Ashli Babbitt wrongful death lawsuit from California to Washington, DC. Among other legal points,Judicial Watch argues it would prejudice the case and be unjust for Ashli’s family if it were transferred to the hostile forumof District of Columbia.

Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit on January 5, 2024, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on behalf of the family of Ashli Babbitt, the U.S. Air Force veteran who was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021 (Estate of Ashli Babbitt and Aaron Babbitt, et al. v. United States of America (No. 3:24-cv-00033)).

Babbitt was a 35-year-old resident of San Diego, CA, where she owned and operated a successful pool business with her husband Aaron. Ashli traveled alone from San Diego to Washington, DC, to attend the Women for America First (aka Save America) rally on January 6, 2021, at the Ellipse.

As the Judicial Watch complaint recounts:

The shooting occurred at the east entrance to the Speaker’s Lobby. After demonstrators filled the hallway outside the lobby, two individuals in the crowded, tightly packed hallway struck and dislodged the glass panels in the lobby doors and the right door sidelight. Lt. Byrd, who is a United States Capitol Police commander and was the incident commander for the House on January 6, 2021, shot Ashli on sight as she raised herself up into the opening of the right door sidelight. Lt.Byrd later confessed that he shot Ashli before seeing her hands or assessing her intentions or even identifying her as female. Ashli was unarmed. Her hands were up in the air, empty, and in plain view of Lt. Byrd and other officers in the lobby.

The facts speak truth. Ashli was ambushed when she was shot by Lt. Byrd. Multiple witnesses at the scene yelled, “you just murdered her.”

Lt. Byrd was never charged or otherwise punished or disciplined for Ashli’s homicide.

On March 26, 2024, Judicial Watch filed its opposition to the Biden Justice Department’s request’s request to transfer venue of the case to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arguing against the change of venue, Judicial Watch points out thatunder federal law a “civil actionagainst the United States may be brought in any judicial district in which the plaintiff resides,” and“a civil action on a tort claimagainst the United Statesmay be prosecuted in the judicial district where the plaintiff resides.”

Judicial Watch argues:

Defendant’s position [to transfer venue]illustrates and underscores the prejudice and injustice that Plaintiffs would face if venue were transferredto the District of Columbia. Defendant mentions 80 Capitol Police officers and 60 Metropolitan Police officers that were injured and connects the deaths of three officers to the events on that day, thus connecting Ashli Babbitt to these deaths and other injuries, as if she caused them. The request for a change in venue is clearly influenced by Defendant’s strongest motivation for changing venue, which is to select the forum where it feels it would receive a favorable process and outcome based on adversity against January 6 participants. By its motion, Defendant hopes to unfairly and unjustly connect Ashli Babbitt to violence, injuries, and deaths for which she is blameless and connect her by association to thousands of individuals convicted of misdemeanors and felonies for which she was never charged and is unable to present a defense due to the lawless actions of one of Defendant’s employees in shooting and killing her.

It’s no secret that the District of Columbia is a hostile forum for January 6 defendants. It’s also prejudicially biased against Ashli Babbitt. For example, during a recent sentencing hearing in the District of Columbia in United States v. Daniel Goodwyn … District Judge Reggie B. Walton made the following statement to the defendant and his counsel regarding the shooting of Ashli Babbitt:

THE COURT: You should not have been – you cannot convince me that somehow what she was doing was somehow justified and the police did not have a justification for taking the actions that they took. You can’t convince me of that.==

(https://www.judicialwatch.org/babbitt-wrongful-death-lawsuit/

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Judge Walton’s statement evidences he has already predetermined a crucial issue in this case – whether Ashli Babbitt’s killing was justified.Judge Walton made other biased comments on the record, including, “Well, she shouldn’t have been coming through the window,” and “this man who was protecting the Capitol ends up being called a thug … that is just mind boggling.” … Unfortunately, Judge Walton is speaking what many others are at least thinking behind the bench in the District of Columbia. This Court is the only venue which offers Plaintiffs a chance of receiving a fair trial.

“Let’s be blunt, the Biden DOJ wants to move the Ashli Babbitt wrongful death lawsuit to DC because it knows the courts here are notoriously hostileto anyone tied to the January 6 protests,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton….

Judicial Watch is extensively investigating the events of January 6.

In January 2024, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on behalf of Aaron Babbitt and the Ashli Babbitt Estate against the U.S. Department of Justice for all FBI files on Ashli Babbitt.

In October 2023, Judicial Watch receivedthe court-ordered declaration of James W. Joyce, senior counsel in the Office of the General Counsel for the Capitol Police, in which he describes emails among senior officials of the United States Capitol Police in January 2021 that show warnings of possible January 6 protests that could lead to serious disruptions at the U.S. Capitol.

In September 2023, Judicial Watch received records from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, a component of the Department of Justice, in a FOIA lawsuit that detail the extensive apparatus the Biden Justice Department set up to investigate and prosecute January 6 protestors.

A previous review of records from that lawsuit highlighted the prosecution declination memorandum justifying the decision not to prosecute U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd for the shooting death of Babbitt.

In January 2023, documents from the Department of the Air Force, Joint Base Andrews, MD, showed U.S. Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd was housed at taxpayer expense at Joint Base Andrews after he shot and killed U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt inside the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

In November 2021, Judicial Watch released multiple audio, visual and photo records from the DC Metropolitan Police Department about the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol Building. The records included a cell phone video of the shooting and an audio of a brief police interview of the shooter, Byrd.

In October 2021, United States Park Police records related to the January 6, 2021, demonstrations at the U.S. Capitol showed that on the day before the January 6 rally featuring President Trump, U.S. Park Police expected a “large portion” of the attendees to march to the U.S. Capitol and that the FBI was monitoring the January 6 demonstrations, including travel to the events by “subjects of interest.”

https://www.judicialwatch.org/babbitt-wrongful-death-lawsuit/

Sean 'Diddy' Combs' youngest son Christian 'King', 25, is sued for sexual assaulting a woman during a 2022 yacht party

By Glenn Thomas For Dailymail.Com

12:55 EDT 05 Apr 2024

As Sean 'Diddy' Combs' ongoing sex-trafficking investigation continues to unfold, his youngest son is named in a new lawsuit.

Christian 'King' Combs, 25, has been sued for sexually assaulting Grace O'Marcaigh, a woman working on a yacht his father chartered in the summer of 2022, according to court documents obtained by Us Weekly.

Filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the lawsuit also accuses King of sexual harassment and infliction of emotional distress.

Diddy is also accused of aiding and abetting his son, named in the lawsuit for premises liability for chartering the boat.

O'Marcaigh claimed that the trip was 'sold as a wholesome family excursion' but became a 'hedonistic environment.'

The alleged event took place in late December of that year, shortly before Diddy hosted a star-studded yacht party on New Year's Eve.

According to TMZ, O'Marcaigh alleges that King tried to kiss and grope her after giving her a shot of liquor she suspects was spiked.

The outlet reported that O'Marcaigh also has audio recordings of herself allegedly turning down his advances in the yacht's studio and trying to get away from him.

Afterward, King allegedly attempted to force O'Marcaigh to perform oral sex on him.

She included photos of bruises on her arm, which she says she got during the altercation while fighting him off and escaping.

Aaron Dyer, a lawyer on Diddy and King's defense team responded to the lawsuit in a statement to Us.

'We have not seen this woman’s claim but I'm sure we can expect the same kind of manufactured lies we've come to expect from Tyrone Blackburn and his clients, just as we saw in Rodney Jones' lawsuit – which has yet to be served,' said Dyer.

'He was just slapped by a federal judge in New York earlier this week for his "pattern of behavior" in "improperly [filing] cases in federal court to garner media attention, embarrass defendants with salacious allegations, and pressure defendants to settle quickly,"' he continued.

'Two days after he was referred to the disciplinary committee in the Southern District of New York, it's interesting he chose to file a new suit in California…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13276229/Sean-Diddy-Combs-youngest-son-Christian-King-25-sued-sexual-assaulting-woman.html

Federal Judge Hits CDC Over Withholding Data on Adverse Vaccine Reports

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues to resist disclosing information on claimed side effects and problems with its COVID-19 vaccines, including from healthcare workers. Due to a January order by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in a Freedom of Information Act case,the CDC is being forced to turn over hundreds of thousands of “free text” entries from V-safe.The court has scolded the CDC for its continuing efforts to withhold information on these complaints.

As the CDC and the Biden White House gear up for another possible pandemic, the case reminds us that we still need to address the conduct of the government — and the reporting of the media — from the last pandemic. Once agency officials were told that they could censor those with opposing views, a culture of speech controls took hold at the CDC and the government narrative was then amplified by the media.

To question such mandates was declared a public health threat. The head of the World Health Organization even supported censorship to combat what he called an “infodemic.”

A lawsuit was filed by Missouri and Louisiana and joined by leading experts, including Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya (Stanford University) and Martin Kulldorff (Harvard University). Bhattacharya previously objected to the suspension of Dr. Clare Craig after she raised concerns about Pfizer trial documents. Those doctors were the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated for a more focused Covid response that targeted the most vulnerable population rather than widespread lockdowns and mandates. Many are now questioning the efficacy and cost of the massive lockdown as well as the real value of masks or the rejection of natural immunities as an alternative to vaccination. Yet, these experts and others were attacked for such views just a year ago. Some found themselves censored on social media for challenging claims of Dr. Fauci and others.

The media has quietly acknowledged the science questioning mask efficacy and school closures without addressing its own role in attacking those who raised these objections. Even raising the lab theory on the origin of Covid 19 (a theory now treated as plausible) was denounced as a conspiracy theory. The science and health reporter for the New York Times, Apoorva Mandavilli, even denounced the theory as “racist.” In the meantime, California moved to potentially strip doctors of their licenses for spreading dissenting views on Covid.

It is clear that much still has to be done to create a culture of transparency at the CDC.Judge Kacsmaryk has slammed the agency for withholding the data on the health complaints on spurious grounds. There still appears a culture at CDC in withholding data that could be used to question its decisions or conclusions.

For a year, the CDC has been fighting these efforts. The lawsuit by the Informed Consent Action Network, revealed “nearly 8% of V-safe users said they required medical care, another 12% couldn’t perform normal daily activities and yet another 13% said they missed work or school.” With limited “boxes” supplied by the CDC, people had to write in their complications. The CDC then failed to disclose those reports.

The free-text entries reportedly support one of the most controversial moves by the CDC to downplay heart complications. Litigants say that the new disclosures show a frequency of symptoms associated with myocarditis – inflammation of the the heart muscle myocardium.

Experts raising these concerns were labeled “anti-vaxxers” and conspiracists.

As I have previously testified in Congress, the surest way to combat this culture of censorship is to pass legislation barring a single dime of taxpayer funds from being used to fund censorship efforts, including third-party groups on removing “misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.”

The government can always speak in its own voice, but we should get the government out of the business of controlling the speech of citizens and groups. It can rebut critics on its ample platforms without using third parties to silence them as surrogates.

Additionally, Congress should demand answers on the failure of the CDC to discuss opposing views and to withhold countervailing data during the last pandemic. The loss of public confidence in both the CDC and the media could prove disastrous if we face another pandemic.The years of barring and throttling opposing views(including many later vindicated by the science)has left many Americans deeply distrustful of both the government and the media. That is a real potential health danger. If we want to prepare for the next pandemic, we need to repair that trust.

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/04/05/federal-judge-hits-cdc-over-withholding-data-on-adverse-vaccine-reports/

You Rove, and the Bush family first, how that sound?

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True the Vote

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Jeff Clark case

Witness Harry Haury testified todayabout 1000’s of affidavits he says were submitted to the FBI but never investigated.

When TTV brought our geospatial (cell phone) information to the FBI we told them we believed were looking at a massive RICO case. They agreed, but said they couldn’t investigate unless they could prove a financial nexus of $50,000. Of course, to prove that we needed them … to investigate.

The FBI also gave our data to the GBI, which is confirmed in the attached letter from theformer GBI Director Vic Reynolds, yet neither agency ever investigated further.

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Remember the Trump RICO lawsuit, it had a lot of proof.

RICO is coming up very often these days

Andy Ngô

@MrAndyNgo

Bill and Hillary Clinton were called killers to their facesby leftist pro-Palestine protesters this week in Manhattan. The Clintons helped fundraise for President Biden’s presidential campaign.

They hate them wherever they go!

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