Muslim Critics of NYPD Spying Given Tough Time in First Hearing

Adam Klasfeld reports:

federal magistrate appeared skeptical Thursday that discrimination is the NYPD’s sole motivation for its surveillance of certain Muslims.

Three men, two mosques and a charity, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and other nonprofits, had sued New York City and its officers in June claiming that a “Muslim surveillance program” had “imposed an unjustified badge of suspicion and stigma on hundreds of thousands of innocent New Yorkers.”

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