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The streets of the "city that doesn't sleep" would not be the same without its food vendors, but advocates say it's time for a more just system

A court reportedly ruled Wednesday that ex-Obama official Stuart Seldowitz must take a “26-week Anti-Bias Program” during a hearing.

Stuart Seldowitz, 64, will submit to a “26-week Anti-Bias Program through Queens Counseling for Change,” Judge Beverly Tatham ruled.

If Stuart Seldowitz completes the program, the charges he faces for berating a food truck vendor would be dropped, prosecutors said. A Muslim group called it a “sweetheart deal.”

Barry Williams for NY Daily News via Getty ImagesAll charges against the former high-ranking U.S. national security official who made Islamophobic threats against a halal cart employee will be dropped if he completes anti-bias training, VICE News reports. Stuart Seldowitz was charged with two counts of stalking as a hate crime, and one count of aggravated harassment after he was identified in a video making racist remarks against street vendor Mohamed Hussein, who told VICE News that Seldowitz h

Ex-Obama official reaches deal to avoid prosecution for racist abuse of NYC food truck vendor

Poor Ophelia divided from herself and her fair judgment Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts…. — Hamlet (IV.v.) As was the case with the British and Roman empires that preceded it, Washington has long had a fondness for the divide and conquer paradigm and has ruthlessly fomented sectarianism in the post-Cold War

We can’t let Western media continue normalizing the acute dehumanization and pathologization of Palestinian men.

Seldowitz appeared in New York County Criminal Court on Wednesday with his attorney but said nothing throughout the brief hearing.

From: Sam Miller