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Civil rights lawyers asked a federal judge today to force the New York Police Department to turn over documents about its secret efforts to spy on and infiltrate the Muslim community.
The request, filed in federal court in Manhattan, is based on reporting by The Associated Press, which revealed a clandestine police unit that monitored all aspects of daily life in Muslim neighborhoods. Documents showed that plainclothes officers were being dispatched to eavesdrop inside businesses. Restaurants that serve Muslims were identified and photographed. Hundreds of mosques were investigated. Dozens were infiltrated.
Police also maintained a list of 28 countries that, along with "American Black Muslim," were labeled "ancestries of interest."