(NY1) Fresh off a meeting with Mayor Eric Adams and Muslim community leaders, longtime advocate Dr. Debbie Almontaser joined Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Wednesday to discuss NYPD deputy commissioner John Miller’s denial of police wrongdoing during the post-9/11 surveillance of New York City’s Muslim populations.
Almontaser said she wants New Yorkers to understand the trauma New York’s Muslim community lives with because of the surveillance, including informants ingratiating themselves on college campuses and in wedding parties. She knows, she says, because she had interactions with informants working alongside her as she planned protests and political activities.
“The community was traumatized because of how invasive the surveillance was,” Almontaser said. “It was in our mosques, it was in our bodegas, it was in our coffee shops, it was in our barber shops.”
