(Courthouse News) Two summers ago, journalist and activist Masih Alinejad encountered a “gigantic” man in the driveway of her Brooklyn home.
They had an awkward interaction. Alinejad said that the man was talking; she shouted, “What?” But the man kept speaking, and Alinejad realized that he was talking to someone on his cell phone, not her. She apologized and went back inside her house.
She returned to her porch a few moments later to retrieve her key, which she had accidentally left sticking out of the lock on her door. When she did, the man had moved from her driveway to her flower bushes.
“He was in the sunflowers staring into my eyes,” Alinejad said Tuesday while testifying in Manhattan federal court. “Maybe he was just taking photos. A lot of people take pictures of my garden, my beautiful sunflowers.”
