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Muslim Deli Owner Charges Yonkers Police With Selective Enforcement

By Howard M. Friedman

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A Yonkers, New York delicatessen owner has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against 14 Yonkers police officers. According to Friday's Lower Hudson Journal News, Haifa Tamimi says police engaged in selective enforcement against her of a city ordinance requiring businesses to close between midnight and 6 a.m. She says she was targeted beginning in 2002 because she was a Muslim and an Arab. The lawsuit claims other businesses were not ticketed. Her 24-hour deli did most of its business during the midnight to 6 a.m. shift.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on November 16, 2008 (boomark / email).

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