New York City will have to pay out $180,000 to three Muslim women after forcing them to take off their hijabs for mugshots.

Three lawsuits were settled Monday in Brooklyn federal court stemming from the NYPD policy of photographing people wearing religious head coverings, the New York Daily News reported. The three women settled for $60,000 each.

Some cases date to 2012, when a high school girl – identified as “G.E.” – was arrested after a brawl with two other girls whom she thought spread gossip about her.

G.E. was initially brought to a local police station and was told to take off her hijab. G.E. refused and was taken to a secluded room where a female police officer took her photo outside the presence of any men, the Daily News reported.

But at Brooklyn Central Booking the police could not accommodate the girl’s religious needs, telling her that there were not any female officers available and that the camera is in a fixed spot, thus the mugshot could not be taken in a private room.

The girl alleged that a male officer then took her photo without a hijab, making her feel “exposed, violated and distraught” as she was forced to be without the Islamic garb for 20 minutes while male officers and prisoners looked at her.

Police issued an order in March 2015, according to court filings, changing the policies regarding people who refuse to take off their religious head coverings. Officers who perform the arrest had to tell the person that the NYPD offers a choice of getting a private photo – without the head garb and with an officer of the same gender.

Two other cases were filed in 2015 and 2016 by G.E.’s lawyer, Tahanie Aboushi, and involved a similar situation.

One woman claims to have been forced to remove her veil at Brooklyn Central Booking police station and was denied a female photographer. Another accuser said her hijab was removed at the scene of her arrest.

Aboushi told the Daily News on Tuesday that the police department issued additional policies regarding religious headwear in December 2017.

“We did our best to establish good precedent,” Aboushi said. “On the one hand, it gives officers guidance, and on the other hand, it protects the exercise of religious freedom.”

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NYC. Sharia.

Get OUT of my country.

I have no sympathy for the people in NYC. They keep voting in liberal, progressive democrat slime balls, so they have what they voted for. Anyone of these SHIT HOLE DEMOCRAT RUN CITIES can improve themselves by throwing these scum bags out, but they refuse to do so, hence they have what they voted for.
Personally, I could care less how miserable their lives are or how much they have to pay in taxes or if they get overtaken by radical Muslims.
Good Reddens to these people!

You don't want to take your scarf off for a mug shot?

Easy answer: don't do anything that will get you arrested.

...and go back to you SHITHOLE of a country.

The pussies settled. I think I would have taken it to the judge.

What happens when a cross-dressing male officer identifying as female is assigned to take the picture? Who will be offended then in their liberal paradise? I love how the left lays their own mine field.

Aaaaannndd where is this money gonna go?

Caddy dealership, certainly not overseas where it will sponsor terrorism...

This kind of stupidity is treasonous in its enormity.

This is an outrage!

You want to be here in America, you will obey American laws, not sharia!

Easy money.

I understand the financial aspect to take the cheaper way out but at what point does principles come into play.

we should OUTLAW the wearing of disguises in public. You want to wear that tent cover in private, fill your fucking boots

but in public, the tent comes off

if its that important to you, get the fuck out of this country and go back to a 3rd century nation

Three plane tickets would have been much cheaper

Wait. If I get arrested, aren't they even going to check my bunghole? I must be doing something wrong.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Get OUT of my country.

Bingo. They do not belong here given their ideology. The exit to the country is over there.

I am getting so sick of this crap. They want to come here, play by the rules or back to where you came from. Liberals are definitely sick and twisted and will ruin the country soon.

if they were getting mug shots, does that not imply they were under arrest?

since when does the arrested person call the shots in the booking area?

should have tazed or pepper sprayed the bitches

nuff said .... hottie huh

I guess next time I go to my Credit Union I'll be able to tell the guard that removing my sunglasses and ballcap is a violation of my religious freedom . Wanna guess how that will end ?