OCT. 10 PRESS CONFERENCE GAINS NATIONAL COVERAGE AND WINS FBI ACCOUNTABILITY TO THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY:
“END RACIAL & RELIGIOUS PROFILING”
NEWS COVERAGE:
City Limits Magazine
Nov. 2, 2009
South Asians Plead for Respect after Raids
Queens Chronicle
Oct. 15, 2009
Immigrants Show Solidarity In Arrests
Queens Tribune
Oct 15, 2009
Muslim New Yorkers Protest Alleged Racial Profiling
NY1 News
Oct. 11, 2009
Oct. 11, 2009
Over 150 DRUM members joined several immigrant rights, civil rights, and religious organizations to hold a Press Conference on October 10th to call for an end to recent upsurge in racial profiling of Queens Muslims and Flushing mosques after recent terror investigations. The action was covered by CNN, many local TV networks (NY1, Fox, CBS, NBC, WINS), the Daily News, Queens Courier, and Queens Tribune.
UPDATE:
OCT. 19th
Meeting with Joseph Demarest, Assistant Director in
Charge, FBI and DRUM Executive Director, DRUM’s Attorney
from CUNY Law School, and two other Muslim Organizations.
DRUM wins verbal commitment to take and investigate official
complaints to his office on racial and religious profiling. Mr.
Demarest also commits to a large community meeting to
address concerns raised at the Oct. 10 Press Conference.
OCT. 23rd
Jackson Heights Community Meeting with FBI- Joseph
Demarest, Assistant Director in Charge
DRUM facilitates a Community Meeting and Accountability
Session with the FBI on concerns ranging from violations of
existing policies on profiling to changes in national policy and
new policies needed. DRUM opened the event with two
presentations on recent racial profiling incidents and violations
in our outreach to over 100 Flushing residents since the recent
“Operation Highrise” investigations. DRUM called for and won a
public commitment from the FBI to taking in Complaints of
Profiling and conducting investigations. The FBI committed to a
follow-up meeting in a few months to reply to several local
practice and broader policy asks.
NOV. - DEC.
DRUM partners with CUNY School of Law to collect
community profiling complaints in Flushing through intensive
outreach and Mosque Know Your Rights presentations. CUNY
law students and professors will compile complaints in a
database and submit to the FBI for investigations.
