(MPR) A woman who was forced to remove her hijab as she was booked into the Ramsey County jail says she hopes a legal settlement announced Tuesday will protect other Muslim women from similar treatment.
“It was one of the most humiliating and harmful experiences of my life,” Aida Al-Kadi said at a Minneapolis news conference to release details of the settlement. “I knew that I did not want any other Muslim woman to experience what I did.”
The settlement approved by a federal court last month calls for Al-Kadi to get $120,000 from Ramsey County.
In a lawsuit Al-Kadi filed over the incident, she had been asking for $300,000. In early June, the court allowed that lawsuit to proceed.
