The family of New York and New Jersey bomber, Ahmad Rahami, filed a federal lawsuit against “The City of Elizabeth” and the “Elizabeth Police Department” in April 2011 claiming they were victims of anti-Muslim harassment
The 38-page complaint alleges that, among other things, after their First American Fried Chicken restaurant opened in 2002, they became the victims of racial discrimination from the Elizabeth Police Department which attempted on multiple occasions to shut their restaurant down early despite an exemption allowing them to operate beyond 10pm. The Rahami family argued that the Police Department’s “selective enforcement of an ordinance…were based solely on animus against plaintiffs’ religion, creed, race and national origin.” – READ MORE
