“There really is no justification for taking off a person’s religious headgear,” said Powell’s attorney, Marwa Rifahie of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations.
But there is. Something could be hidden in it. A prisoner could hide a knife in a hijab and kill a police officer with it. And when that happens, the police officer will be a martyr of multiculturalism and “diversity.”
“Muslim woman awarded $85,000 after her hijab was forcibly removed by Long Beach police officer,” by Veronica Rocha, Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The city of Long Beach has agreed to pay $85,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman whose hijab was pulled off by a male officer while she was in police custody.
The settlement, approved Tuesday, concludes the legal battle undertaken by Kirsty Powell, an African American Muslim. Her lawsuit, filed in 2016, prompted the Long Beach Police Department to reverse its policy barring inmates from wearing religious head coverings.
“There really is no justification for taking off a person’s religious headgear,” said Powell’s attorney, Marwa Rifahie, who also works for the Greater Los Angeles Area Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The case started in May 2015 when Powell and her husband were stopped by two officers because he was driving a lowrider vehicle on Long Beach Boulevard, Rifahie said.
She provided them with her identification information. When officers ran her name through their database, they discovered she had three misdemeanor warrants for petty theft, vehicle theft and resisting arrest, police said.
Powell was not aware that a warrant had been issued for a 2002 petty theft offense, her attorney said. The other warrants were issued after Powell’s sister had falsely used her name, according to the federal lawsuit.
As officers prepared to arrest Powell, her husband requested that a female officer be called to the scene since physical contact must be done by a woman, the lawsuit contends.
The officers refused and handcuffed Powell, according to the suit. She was then told she would have to remove her hijab.
Powell told the officers “that she wears a hijab in accordance with her religious practice and that it is her legal right to wear it,” the lawsuit said.
She was driven to the Long Beach police station, where she was booked and stripped of her hijab in front of other male officers and inmates, according to the lawsuit.
Powell was detained for 24 hours without her hijab. Once she was allowed to leave, she was given a property bag containing it.
“She was held in the jail overnight, forced to sit in a cell feeling distraught, vulnerable and naked without her headscarf to everyone that passed,” the lawsuit said. “She cried throughout the ordeal and experienced humiliation when both her religious beliefs and personal integrity were violated. She felt that the male officers and male inmates had seen parts of her body that they should not have seen, according to her religious beliefs.”
Shortly after her release, Powell reached out to CAIR, the Muslim civil rights organization, to go over her options.
In April 2016, she filed the lawsuit, alleging that her 1st Amendment rights had been violated….
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
There really is no excuse for Moslems, including Moslima attire. It’s an unhappy coincidence that hiding women from men has the ancillary benefit of hiding small weapons from Infidels.
Jaladhi says
What a duplicitous game Muslims have going for them in the name of religion and religious freedom. One has to determine whether Islam is really a religion or cult masquerading as a religion!
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Cult. One that sits atop the tripod of the Islam life belief system: 1) religion that’s a takeoff from JudeoChristianity, 2) government (Sharia) and 3) military (Jihad).
John A. Marre says
“An African American Muslim.” There you have it. The outcome was never going to be in favor of rational human beings. She enjoys immunity for two reasons. If one doesn’t work, the other is there as a backup.
The Peoples’ Republic of California is already bowing down in submission to those who will rule over us.
Berengaria says
Thanks John for the STARK TRUTH! The First Things Mentioned were “MUSLIM WOMAN, MUSLIM THIEF”, when really Powell was an AFRICAN-American (Black) Thief, THUG! I noticed Most Converts are from the AA COMMUNITY, so now, they have TWO EXCUSES “Islam is FIRST, but NEXT is THE OLE RACE CARD! Apparently, she skipped free & carrying BIG BUCKS, Too!
Robert Verner Anderson says
NO, then you give them another inroad… They already have videos, shouting they will dominate the world and we want Sharia Law…. If you give an inch, they will take a mile.. I belong to ACT for America and this organization has already gotten many states to pass laws that there will never be Sharia Law allowed. That is happening in European countries now..Once they get a large population in one city, they over ride local laws and start Sharia Law as their religion says to never become friends with infidels so they refuse to assimilate and start their own cult clubs…. http://www.actforamerica.org It is a security based organization to keep out the extremist jihadi type Muslims.
mortimer says
IS THIS A MODEL CITIZEN???
Quote: “When officers ran her name through their database, they discovered she had three misdemeanor warrants for petty theft, vehicle theft and resisting arrest, police said.”
This is NOT a model citizen, so why is the judge forbidding the cops to do a thorough body search?
The legal profession is BONKERS.
Terry says
Curious– When the hell did VEHICLE THEFT become a misdemeanor?
I always thought ti was a felony.
Or, did she steal a broken bicycle or broken red wagon?
epistemology says
Can’t argue with that, totally right. the whole argumentation is crazy to the core.
“She was held in the jail overnight, forced to sit in a cell feeling distraught, vulnerable and naked without her headscarf to everyone that passed,” the lawsuit said. “She cried throughout the ordeal and experienced humiliation when both her religious beliefs and personal integrity were violated. She felt that the male officers and male inmates had seen parts of her body that they should not have seen, according to her religious beliefs.”
Nobody is naked when they’ve got their clothes on, did anybody strip her? I think the male inmates and male officers have seen more women’s parts revealed than that stupid bitch can think of. It’s so preposterous, anyway it always gets to the same goal, they want to impose their f++++ng sharia no matter how. So please keep your trap shut stupid bitch, we don’t wear hijabs in our society.
epistemology says
Anyway the state of California seems to be very wealthy, not short on their dough
gravenimage says
Not if this insanity keeps up, epistemology.
eduardo odraude says
according to Victor Davis Hanson, California has very serious economic problems:
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2017/08/10/is-california-cracking-up-n2366505
Dorothee says
Including a completely unnecessary paragraph about her emotional response is used to manipulate the tiny flames of viewer emotion into a bonfire. The left is led entirely by its emotional response, not by reason. Going on a crying jag because you got in trouble is NORMAL, but the left seems to want everyone to think she was abused or something.
J_not_a says
Exactly, it was her g-damn HAIR fer cryin’ out loud! It’s not like her va-jay-jay was on full spread-out display i.e. porn-mag style the whole time for all the male cops to ogle. Naked! she whines! Her hair being visible is NOT being naked.
If that is how she views it, she needs to fluck off to a muzz country that shares her weird-ass views as to what constitutes “nakedness” and “humiliation” like sowdi barbaria or some other trashcanistan. Sheesh!
andra says
Dear Americans, do you really believe that you are better off than the Europeans? Your courts are infiltrated with lefties and Muslims as well as in Europe. With Trump as President I have the Feeling that the Islamisation of the US has taken up speed. This is comparable to Europe, too, where the islamisations is speeding up each time the European resistance is increasing.
Savvy Kafir says
Andra — How do you figure that the process of Islamization is sped up when resistance to it is increased? And what would you recommend?
Submitting to Islamists has not worked out well for us, anywhere it’s been tried. The Allah junkies only respect strength. They need to be stopped in their tracks. Then they need to be deported. Anything less will eventually result in the Islamization of the civilized world.
andra says
You see it in Europe pretty well. As soon as the identitares came up, the right wing terror got more and more mentioned in the media. With the growing of the AfD in Germany the anti-german Propaganda was increased – e.g. Ms. Käßmann, former lutheran Bishop: two German parents, four German grandparents: that makes it obvious that you must be Nazi.
With the increasing resistance less People get send home, e.g. to Afghanistan, more and more attacks get explained as cultural misunderstandings
And in the US I see the same development: more Muslim complaints, more Courts that follow their demands.
gravenimage says
What “right wing terror”? I haven’t seen any examples. Just lots of hand-wringing over the idea of it.
WorkingClassPost says
Unfortunately the cops were probably in the wrong, here.
If removing her headgear constitutes a search, them she was entitled to it being carried out by a female officer, but $85k?
And how does this compare to the ordeal of the little girl in Idaho, raped by muslims then systematically abused by police and judiciary?
There’s a follow up to that scandal, over on the Geller Report, btw.
PRCS says
That was my thought, too.
If the rules/procedures require a female police officer to perform the search…..
Brendan Cleary says
I think you’ll find that a body search or search requiring the removal of clothing, as opposed to headgear, requires a woman police officer, other than in an emergent situation. The Rule of Law requires all citizens to be equal before the law, Muslims included, and the payout is absurd, but get used to it. You’ve allowed it to happen to you.
Shmooviyet says
The story of the way that child and her parents have been stomped on by all involved makes this all the more sickening! The attorneys & judge in the Idaho case might just as well be CAIR employees.
Muslims are perma-victims; rewarded and fawned over, no matter how badly they ignore, disrespect or p… on the rights of others.
“Personal integrity”?!?
WorkingClassPost says
Yes, it’s hard to believe that this judicial system rewards a felon in one State, and punishes a victim in another.
The common denominator is muslims escaping justice, so perhaps there’s no surprise at all.
rubiconcrest says
The federal law opening the door to these kinds of lawsuits should be modified.
Terry says
How can HEADGEAR be considered a body search?
They did not remove her garbage bag, or anything else. She could have removed it, herself. But then, what would she complain about?
Send her to Zimbabwe and let her starve
gravenimage says
I think the police have a right to protect themselves. If they cannot check for weaponry until a police woman arrives, that can put them *and the public* at risk.
If this Muslimah was so concerned about her “modesty”, perhaps she should not have been out committing crimes.
PRCS says
Likely many ways that could have been handled–with the safety of both the officers and the public–while waiting for a female cop to arrive.
Wonder what dispatch and patrol sergeant told them to do.
Given the monetary award, the situation was apparently not handled properly
Do like the idea of amputating one of her hands–per Islamic law–though.
Brian Hoff says
Any body can accuse of than crime by anyone without proof.One of city councilman was accuse of rapeing than woman who make it up when the police went to arrest him he was in the hospital UC unit after than major heart operation.There was than man on the FBI most want list for over 20 year until Hoover the head of FBI apoint than agent to look into it turn the local police clear him of being involse in than murder it was for some reason being act upton in the FBI. Hoover was thinking of personal arrest him all the bad PR
Terry says
Can you please learn English, especially punctuation- so one can follow what you are writing.
I acknowledge that this is one of your more readable posts.
Although parts of it still make no sense ( at least to me).
Ren says
Haha! Is that a joke?
gravenimage says
The joke is on us, I’m afraid.
Transmaster says
This is California what do you expect.
brane pilot says
If someone rips off your Swastika armband, you get $85,000.
Just say it is your religion.
gravenimage says
+1
CogitoErgoSum says
Removing her hijab violated her rights under the 1st Amendment? What about Sikhs who are required by their religion to wear a ceremonial sword or knife called a Kirpan? If the laws of the land are to be applied equally shouldn’t Sikh’s therefore be allowed to keep their Kirpans when incarcerated or flying on an airplane? A line needs to be drawn somewhere when it comes to religious accoutrements. Could this woman still be a Muslim and pray to her Muslim god without her hijab? I think she could and if so her freedom to practice her religion was not violated. The City of Long Beach should have fought this.
Voytek Gagalka says
Then where is a reward for other thieves whose pockets are forcibly searched by police because “there really is no justification for” searching a person’s pockets on mere suspicion that they can contain some stolen goods? It seems that “Lady Justice” is no longer treating everybody equally. Sure, Mohammedans are “protected class” now since Islam trumps absolutely everything (and that’s sharia).
Pork Sword says
“Shortly after her release, Powell reached out to CAIR, the Muslim civil rights organization, to go over her options”… and whom were wringing their hands with glee!
Of course another ‘option’ would have been to appreciate the reality of the situation for the police officer, appreciate the standards and protocol training regarding his own and colleagues safety. You see, if she DID have a concealed weapon and used it, 1. We would NEVER, EVER be hearing about that story. 2. His fellow officers would NOT be happy, and his workplace would never be the same for him.
Training is in place for very valuable reasons in law enforcement – if it can happen, it will happen. Just disgraceful.
somehistory says
Had they allowed her…and her ugliness…to keep the scarf, go into a room with a female officer in order to be searched, and she had a weapon under the cloth, she could well have used it against the officer, killing or severely wounding her.
Just as officers are instructed to search a suspect before they allow them to get into a squad car…for the safety of all concerned…this should have been allowed on the same grounds. Hair is not the same as body parts that are *legally* covered while in public.
Many moslum women do not wear scarves. This is an argument against her claim.
If a religious organization has a rule or belief that extends to ALL of its members, it can be used as a legal argument. But if it is up the conscience of each member as to whether they will follow the rule or command, then the law does not consider it the same way.
Paying her was on the first in a long line of payments. Just as companies have found out when they bend their company rules for moslums and then when they can’t due to safety, etc., they get sued.
The city caved and next time, they will cave to a larger amount.
islum is a beast from satan. It’s adherents are wild beasts who seek to devour as the devil does.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Somehistory.
Phil Copson says
They want to make large payments for a variety of reasons – it keeps them in with their peer-group of Left-wing lawyers, they get the thrill of playing Father Christmas with other people’s money, it’s sticking up two fingers to Donald Trump’s desire to limit muslim immigration and to conservatives in general, and finally they see it as an insurance premium against anything happening to them personally.
JawsV says
Would have loved to have seen the headgear coming off…
Blangwort says
If they keep this up, cops will simply stop enforcing the law on Muslims. Then private citizens will be left with no alternative but to shoot Muslim offenders, knowing that the cops won’t do anything.
They wanted a religious war? If this goes through, it just might happen.
gravenimage says
Blangwort wrote:
If they keep this up, cops will simply stop enforcing the law on Muslims.
……………….
That’s a big part of the goal for Muslims here.
AzB says
To be fair they could have avoided all this by providing a female officer to do any body search. Provided that women of any religion have the same right, i have no issue with that.
You probably should be able to request the gender of a person doing a strip search particularly prior to being found guilty of any crime. You can request this for doctors I know (whoever you are).
Seems needlessly inconsiderate by the canadian department here. On the other hand, i can’t be the only one who always reels from the size of compensation claims across a huge variety of cases. They seem astonishing, particularly when compared to compensation payments people get for stuff like care home neglect – often merely 6000-8000.
Unless compensation involves serious physical harm – and this goes for libel damages too – i do not understand how the legal system built up such precedents of vast life changing payouts for rather minor incidents in peoples lives. Parasitic legal culture????
AzB says
It bothers me because i think it is one of the planks lying underneath victimhood culture and manufactured or exaggerated offense culture. without the validation of oh so large payments people’s tendency to play the system in expectation of financial reward would be greatly reduced.
But then i have a problem with much in our modern legal culture – everything from intellectual property to health and safety law needs a huge rethink as it’s stiffling our species in some pretty insidious ways.
gravenimage says
Removing a headscarf is not a “strip search”. And since when was California in Canada? (Sometimes it just seems that way)
Robeaver says
Only 85K?? The next one will be big. Way more bigger. I thought canada was happy with 10 million bucks for rights abused……California must be really happy.
And what about the theft charges…thrown out?
Cops will learn procedures to follow and not make the same mistakes again. We hope.
gravenimage says
California: Muslim thief awarded $85,000 because cop removed her hijab
……………………
Bloody insanity. She’s a high-stakes thief, all right–but only because these dhimmi tools allowed her to be.
davej says
Insane. Special rights for Muslims – again. Anyone in the custody of the police is required to be searched for weapons. That includes your baseball cap, Stetson, dunce cap, turban or hijab. This does not constitute a “body search”. Muslims are playing this for all its worth and we are collectively being played for fools.
Giving taxpayer money to thieves really sticks in my craw.
eduardo odraude says
Try to stop using google as a search engine. Google is a Jihad enabler. Try https://duckduckgo.com/ It’s not as good a search engine as google, of course, but for most purposes it’s fine.
Stop using google chrome as your browser. Try the brave browser. I find it fast and good, and they don’t filter things politically. I have used Google so much, but today my attitude has become: F*** Google.
abad says
Send her off to Syria. She can live with other Muslimas there.
paul says
Nowhere in the Kora is that necessary
Expat88 says
When I was living in Saudi Arabia I saw first-hand Saudi women and Middle Eastern women that were being thieves and were able to get away with it because they were covered up. Shopkeepers were not Saudi and were usually third world people hired to work in the Kingdom could do nothing about female thieves because they could not prove anything since you could never search somebody who was covered up. I was told by shopkeepers and taxi drivers that it was a real problem especially if a covered up woman wanted to just leave and not pay. They would totally get away with it.
cee says
Scum sucking, camel piss drinking, goat rooting diuche bags! Say that 10 times quickly…. LOL
cee says
Is this FAKE news or is it FOR REAL? If it is real then I want to know this… How long has society been REWARDING criminals?
Is the police department going BANANAS?
What do honest citizens have to do to be given money, because it seems that crime DOES pay these days!
Peacemaker says
Muslim thief awarded USD 85000 for being a thief who arrested by Police. Muslim thief have license of steal in U.S. . What a wonderful paradise for Muslim !
common sense guy says
The real insult is the judge awarding her such a large sum. $1 would be appropriate. Same with Khadr, Sorry, the Canadian gov rescued you from Gitmo, heres your $1. Seams judges and juries are always handing out huge ridiculous amounts for stupid stuff.
762x51FMJ says
Part of her defense was that her sister had done some of the crimes, why the mix up?
Because anyone who walks into a store with a black veil covered face looks the same,
Even videotape can’t prove anything. It they make it outside the store with the merchandise other women in identical clothing are waiting outside so any one of them could be the thief.
now you must lift their burkas to find the HDTV under tent #1, tent #2 or tent #3 ? Do that and this case would be in the millions in compensation,
Meanwhile non muslim American women are shown no quarter when it comes to the dispense of justice. Examples are strip and cavity searches for drugs that non muslim American women must endure when arrested.
It’s as though the Muslim women are saying that what is under their skirt is something so sacred they had it cut out and sewn closed. And since nothing is there you need not see it either.. Abra Cadabra…
ninetyninepct says
Prove you are a Muslim.
common sense guy says
Prove she is a woman
Politicianaphobia says
I am thinking I should sue the Canadian government for all the mental anguish I am suffering from their dumb ass decisions. Yes I should be able to sue all the Liberals and NDP for voting for motion M-103. I can not sue Justine Trudeau, the girly girl did not vote. Looking ahead he will lie and say I was not supporing M-103 nor was I not supporting it um um um you know. The foremost duty of ISLAM in this world is to depose jahillyyah from the leadership of man, and to take the leadership into it’s own hands and enforce the particular way of life which is it`s permanent feature. Islam does not sanction the rule of SELFISH desires. lol lol lol ha ha ha the laugh is on us. DEPORT THEM ALL.
UNCLE VLADDI says
On the contrary, there is no logical or rational justification for allowing superstitious religious head-gear.
Brian Hoff says
When are you going to cover the violence march in Virginia by armed white power KKK and neonazie attack peaceful protector Saturday and trump dare not say anything against then his base after one of the leader of the march tweet trump you better not say anything about as you will lose our support.
Terry says
What has that got to do with this post?
Brian Hoff says
One time the police my mother house act in than bad manner playing with they guns one was spinning his pistrol on his finger in front of two wittness than agent and his father than judge of than appeal court who is pro police. That search broke every rules on how to than legal search that the DA have to file legal paper to declare the search warrent invald and the search illegal anything fround would not be enter into evidence untril president Reagon illegal change triant evidence law. The police commander came to house took the pirsol of the cop away who claim it was unload the commander went to the fireing range than pull the trigger than a bullet came out. All three cops where fire we wherenot the only who complain about then.
Terry says
HUH?
What are you saying or trying to say
Brian Hoff says
The country police department did than training programming for the first time on how do than legal search with than warrent. This happen 1967 or 1968. I remember they threaten to kill verybody there when the police commander hear that our family lawyer hear that what also happen the DA knew his case against my father was going to fall apart he was than sierse killer with mulppersonal able to past lie detectors test our family lawyer wasnot his lawyer. Instead of murber 1 the DA have to settle for less killing charge in a plead bargin. They found no evidence at our house in my mother name. The same 3 policeman found some evidence my father and his lawyer claim it was plant by the police in veiw of the police misconducts the would have throwing that evidence out too. The DA want those three police fire.
Terry says
HUH?
Another post that needs clarification as to what you are trying to say.
AND WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH THIS POST??
Beauregard says
When you are suspected of committing a crime the cops have the right to check for weapons & that pile of rags on top of the head is not exempted from a search it is time for this PC crap to stop also it seems from reading the previous post a lot of post associated with cluttering this site
to cause disruption by pro Muslim & Anti American posters.