NYC cops arrest human rights lawyer waiting outside restaurant while her kids used restroom [View all]

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/04/nyc-cops-arrest-human-rights-lawyer-waiting-outside-restaurant-while-her-kids-used-restroom/

A human rights lawyer was arrested outside a Ruby Tuesday’s in New York City as she waited for her children, who were inside using the restroom, The New York Daily News reports.

On Tuesday, Chaumtoli Huq filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Federal Court alleging that the New York Police Department officers who arrested her used “unreasonable and wholly unprovoked force” as she was waiting for family after a pro-Palestinian rally in July.

Huq had, the previous day, taken a leave of absence from her role as a top attorney with New York City’s Public Advocate’s office so she could focus on the abuse of garment workers in her home country of Bangladesh.


According to the lawsuit, police approached Huq outside of the Ruby Tuesday’s and instructed her to “move along.” She explained to the officers that her husband was escorting their children to the bathroom inside, and that she was waiting for them to return. At that point, “without any legal basis, [one officer] grabbed Ms. Huq, turned her and pushed her against the wall and placed her under arrest.”

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