Like Glenn Greenwald said With Liberty and Justice for Some.
The case of Ayyub Abdul-Alim fits a decades-long pattern of government criminalization of African-American Muslims.
via
Arun Kundnani,
Emily Keppler and
Muki Najaer
On the night of December 9, 2011, Siham Stewart called her husband,
Ayyub Abdul-Alim, as he closed down his corner store, Nature’s Garden,
in Springfield, Massachusetts. She asked him to bring home a gallon of
milk. A few minutes later, she watched from the window of their
second-floor apartment as he was seized in the street and handcuffed by
two police officers.
Forty-eight hours after Abdul-Alim’s arrest, FBI agent James Hisgen
and Springfield police officer Ronald Sheehan offered him the chance to
walk away free of charges if he agreed to become an informant on the
Muslim community. He refused the deal and is now held at the Cedar
Junction maximum-security prison in Massachusetts, facing up to sixteen
years behind bars.
While awaiting trial, Abdul-Alim discovered that his wife received
cash payments from the FBI totaling at least $11,949. The receipts were
signed by Sheehan and Hisgen. Stewart testified against Abdul-Alim in
court and admitted to working as an informant. This past April,
Abdul-Alim was found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm that he
alleges the officers planted on him as part of their attempt to pressure
him to work for the FBI.
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