The city has agreed to a $17.5 million payout to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by two hijab-wearing Muslim women who said the NYPD violated their civil rights by forcing them to remove their religious head coverings for mugshot photos. The women — Jamila Clark, a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, and Arwa Aziz, a Brooklyn resident — were arrested within eight months of each other in 2017 on charges that they violated orders of protection.
Both women said they told police officers that they were bound by their religion to wear their hijabs at all times, but their pleas were refused. Clark "sobbed in One Police Plaza with her hijab pushed down around her shoulders," according to the complaint. "Like many Muslim women whose religious beliefs dictate that they wear a hijab, Ms. Clark felt exposed and violated without hers — as if she were naked in a public space," the lawsuit allege
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