'The victim is a health care provider who risks coming in contact with infected patients through his line of work.'
Makram Megdiche, a Tunisian-American pharmacy manager, was tasered and handcuffed by the store security guard earlier this month for wearing a protective mask. Now, Muslim civil rights advocacy organisation CAIR is demanding the Howard County Police Department investigate the incident, highlighting it as yet more evidence of prevailing discriminatory behaviour against the people of colour.
Chaudry says many others began wearing full-face coverings before it became an official government mandate. “Individuals have never been forbidden from wearing them, and we maintain that they have the right to protect themselves and their loved ones,“ he says. Chaudry says that the security guard had no legitimate basis for using the taser gun on the victim. “The victim was a regular customer, and had removed the face covering to identify himself to the guard before putting it back on. The guard should have known he posed no threat,” he says.
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