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Newark Mayor: NYPD Hid Spying on Muslims

HeadlineFeb 23, 2012

New Jersey’s largest city is accusing the New York City Police Department of concealing its extensive spying on local Muslim neighborhoods. On Tuesday, Newark Mayor Cory Booker said the NYPD never informed him or Newark police they were spying on Muslims as part of a wider program across the Northeast. The Associated Press has revealed NYPD agents photographed every mosque in Newark and eavesdropped inside Muslim businesses. Booker says he would have objected to the spying had he known it was taken place. In a statement on Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union called on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to investigate the spying, saying, “The NYPD has run amok, engaging in secret multi-state domestic surveillance of innocent people based on crude religious and racial profiling.”

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