One of the women, Zarmeen Azam, 20, alleges in a lawsuit filed Sunday that NYPD Chief Ruel Stephenson “clutched (Azam’s) throat with one hand, strangling her with the fabric of her hijab” as ...

The incidents are examples of “what appears to be a growing police practice of forcibly and publicly removing women’s hijabs at protests as a form of brutal crowd control through intimidation and ...