By Al Baker
One
evening in January 2017, after she had been detained for hours in a
police holding cell in Manhattan, repeatedly told to remove a head scarf
that is part of her Muslim faith and begun to cry, Jamilla Clark
relented: She let a New York City police officer photograph her without
her hijab.
As
the camera flashed, Ms. Clark, 39, felt as if she were naked, she later
said. Several male officers then stared at the image of her uncovered
head as they stored it in a police database.
In
August, Arwa Aziz, 45, endured a similar experience at a police
building in Brooklyn. Police officers made her pull down her hijab for
an official arrest photo as she stood in a cramped hallway with dozens
of male prisoners. The police snapped photos of her uncovered head and
hair from several angles. The prisoners, who saw Ms. Aziz weeping,
turned away in respect as the officers looked on.
“It’s the law,” one of the officers told her.
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Source: The New York Times
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