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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Jun 3, 2019, 09:44 PM Jun 2019

A Muslim school board candidate was pepper-sprayed during a traffic stop.

She decried it as police brutality. Police say she resisted arrest.

A Muslim woman running for a Northern Virginia school board seat alleges she was a victim of police brutality and discrimination after being pepper-sprayed and dragged from her car after a traffic stop and later forced to remove her headscarf.

Abrar Omeish said she was traveling March 5 between campaign events when she was stopped by a police officer after turning right on a red light at a Fairfax intersection.

Omeish, who is seeking an at-large seat on the Fairfax County School Board, pleaded no contest in May to failing to exhibit her driver’s license, according to court records. She also pleaded no contest to failing to stop before turning right on a red traffic light.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Omeish took responsibility for the traffic violation but said the police officer used excessive force.

“It makes no logical sense to me that, within three minutes, an officer would have to pull mace and that it would escalate and devolve into everything it was that night, over a minor traffic violation,” she said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-muslim-school-board-candidate-was-pepper-sprayed-during-a-traffic-stop-she-decried-it-as-police-brutality-police-say-she-resisted-arrest/ar-AACl8fr?li=BBnb7Kz
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A Muslim school board candidate was pepper-sprayed during a traffic stop. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2019 OP
Cops. That's who they are. That's what they do. (n/t) Iggo Jun 2019 #1
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