The settlement comes more than two decades after the Arab, Muslim and Hindu men were rounded up and detained after the attacks.
Activists, community leaders & elected officials gathered in front of Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Feb. 3, 2019 to protest a lack of heat & electricity for inmatesActivists, community leaders & elected officials gathered in front of Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on Feb.
Rachel Meeropol, a senior staff attorney with the CCR, which represented the plaintiffs in litigation against the federal government, said the detainees were “systemically abused, physically and mentally.” Meeropol acknowledged that the figure, which amounts to $16,000 or $17,000 for each person, is “minimal” and that “the result looks nothing like justice.” But she said a recent Supreme Court decision in the case of Egbert v. Boule “made it even harder for victims of constitutional violations to sue federal officers for money damages.”
“Among other documented abuses, including beatings, forced sleep deprivation, and racial and religious slurs, many of the victims had their faces smashed into a wall where guards had pinned a t-shirt with a picture of an American flag and the words ‘These colors don’t run,’” said the CCR.
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