Daily Mail: $170,000 compensation payout for four terrified Somali-American teens.
The families of four Somali-American boys have received a $170,000 settlement from the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board after the group were held at gunpoint by local authorities.-
Newly released police body camera footage shows the teens - at the time ranging from ages 13 to 16 - being held at gunpoint and forcibly handcuffed on the ground during the July 2018 incident at Minnehaha Regional Park.
'We still deal with the fear and trauma of this incident, but part of the healing process is that we are getting justice,' Halimo Isse, mother to one of the boys, said to KSTP.
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Each of the families will walk away with $40,000. The remaining money will go to the Minnesota chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations for their legal fees.
NY Daily News: Delta fined $50,000 for kicking 3 Muslim passengers off flights.
Delta Air Lines is being fined $50,000 by the Department of Transportation after it ordered three Muslim passengers off planes after they had been cleared to travel by the airline’s own security team.
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The airline said it did not act in a discriminatory manner and its employees were reacting to the passengers’ behavior, not their identities.
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