Anti-Muslim resistance organized across racial lines against NYPD surveillance

Evidence

In 2011, the Associated Press published a series of stories that detailed how the New York City Police Department was engaged in a massive secret program of blanket surveillance monitoring the lawful and peaceful activities of Muslim communities in the tristate area. The series won the Associated Press a Pulitzer Prize and, through the herculean efforts of local activists, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, eventually led to the installation of a new inspector general to oversee the activities of the police department. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1001 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Grassroots coalitions connected NYPD Muslim profiling to black, Latino, and anti-capitalist repression.; The NYPD’s radicalization model criminalizes ordinary Muslim piety and activism; The NYPD ran a secret blanket surveillance program targeting Muslim communities — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1001 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Grassroots coalitions connected NYPD Muslim profiling to black, Latino, and anti-capitalist repression. #corroborates (0.92)
• Grassroots activism linked racial profiling with police repression across groups #corroborates (0.85)
• The NYPD ran a secret blanket surveillance program targeting Muslim communities #expands (0.80) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1001
• The NYPD’s radicalization model criminalizes ordinary Muslim piety and activism #qualifies (0.75)
• The NYPD surveilled Muslim communities across a one-hundred-mile radius #expands (0.75)
• The CIA-trained NYPD ran a human mapping surveillance program of Muslim communities #expands (0.75)
• The NYPD surveilled Muslims without reasonable suspicion through a dedicated Demographics Unit #expands (0.70) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 923