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A Cook County correctional officer who claimed he was harassed by colleagues because of his Arab ancestry was awarded $200,000 in damages by a federal jury Friday.
Officer Abraham Yasin sued the Cook County sheriff's office in 2007, saying he was constantly targeted by fellow officers with slurs such as "camel jockey," "bin Laden," and "shoe bomber" -- over the the radio and via graffiti scrawled on his locker.
Once, according to the court documents, a correctional officer called Yasin on the radio, and when Yasin did not respond, somebody said that "he's making a bomb."
The sheriff's office did not respond to his repeated complaints, according to the suit, which was filed on Yasin's behalf by the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.