"NYPD-Muslim case pivots" Associated Press, May 21, 2013
NEW YORK — A New York Police Department detective told a federal judge that he has seen no evidence that one of his informants brought up the subject of jihad as a way to bait Muslims into making incriminating remarks. But text messages obtained by the Associated Press show otherwise.
Although the detective, Stephen Hoban, described the activities in a new legal filing in US District Court as narrowly focused on a few people under investigation, text messages show a wide-ranging effort.
Eager to make money, Shamiur Rahman, the informant, snapped pictures during prayer sessions, rallies, and a parade; recorded the names of people who signed petitions or protested; and reported fellow Muslims who volunteered to feed needy families.
Those are the things terrorists do.
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I don't.
When the detective responded, his text messages nearly always sought more information, such as, ‘‘Did you take pictures?’’
Rahman said last year that he made about $9,000 over nine months spying widely on friends and others. He said the NYPD encouraged him to use a tactic called ‘‘create and capture.’’ He said it involved creating conversations about terrorism, then capturing the responses and sending them to the department.
Now, as the NYPD defends itself from allegations by civil rights lawyers that such tactics violated a longstanding federal court order, the department said Rahman was either lying or did not know what he was talking about.
‘‘Rahman was never tasked to, nor did he as far as I know, engage in what he refers to as a ‘create and capture’ methodology,’’ Hoban wrote. ‘‘There are 57 field reports documenting Rahman’s work as an informant. In reviewing those field reports, it is clear that Rahman did not use what he refers to in his declaration as a ‘create and capture’ strategy.’’
He might not have used that exact term, but....
The different accounts of Rahman’s activities are significant. Taken with the NYPD’s use of plainclothes detectives assigned to the Demographics Unit to catalog Muslim business and eavesdrop on conversations, civil rights lawyers say that Rahman’s tactics show the department is violating court-imposed rules about what files it can keep on activities protected by the First Amendment....
The civil rights lawyers want a federal judge to appoint an outside monitor to oversee the NYPD’s intelligence-gathering operations.
Let's end the tyranny instead, especially since it is all based on damnable lies.
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FLASHBACK:
"Surveillance of Muslims challenged" Associated Press, February 05, 2013
WASHINGTON — The New York Police Department’s focus on Muslims is similar to the political surveillance of the 1960s and ’70s that was banned under a landmark legal ruling, according to a new court filing by civil rights lawyers.
Oh, an outlaw for a law enforcement agency? Great. We've come so far since the bad old '60s and '70s, huh? If anything, it's worse than it has ever been.
They are seeking an injunction against further surveillance of Muslims without evidence of crimes and a new court-appointed auditor to oversee police activities.
Describing continuing surveillance of Muslims as ‘‘widespread and intense,’’ the civil rights lawyers complained that the NYPD has monitored public places where Muslims eat, shop, and worship, and has kept records and notes about police observations despite no evidence of unlawful or terror-related activities.
There never is. Those are all FBI frame-ups.
The lawyers said the NYPD’s actions violate rules, known as the Handschu guidelines, that a court had imposed as part of a 1985 landmark settlement with the NYPD to a lawsuit they filed.
The motion said the NYPD’s actions were so ‘‘flagrant and persistent’’ that an auditor should be appointed.
The NYPD has said the department follows the Handschu guidelines and did not break any laws.
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