Conclusion Meanings:
'Substantiated': The misconduct occurred and it violated the rules. The NYPD has discretion over what, if any, discipline is imposed.
'Within NYPD Guidelines': The conduct occurred but did not violate the NYPD's own rules, which often give officers significant discretion.
Further details on conclusions.
Musa, Rabab vs City of New York et al.
Case # 151601/2017,
Supreme Court - New York, February 27, 2017, ended February 8, 2018
$85,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On September 6, 2016, Plaintiff was unlawfully arrested as she left Starbucks to go home to her waiting family. Plaintiff was approached by two officers who demanded to see her identification, without justification. The officers proceeded to handcuff her without legal justification. Plaintiff was taken to, upon information and belief, Midtown South precinct where she was invasively searched. Plaintiff practices the Islamic faith and wears a hijab as part of her religious practice. Plaintiff was forced to remove the hijab in violation of her rights and the hijab was confiscated. Plaintiff was detained for several hours in the prescient, and was denied the right to call her worried family and tell them where she ...