- Jul 1, 2016
NYPD Reinstates Muslim Officer and Will Review Its No Beard Policy
After Beldock Levine and Hoffman attorneys won a temporary restraining order last week to stop the New York City Police Department from suspending a Muslim officer without pay for refusing to shave his beard, the NYPD today reinstated Officer Masood Syed and agreed to review its “no beard” policy. Mr. Syed, who has worn a beard for the past decade, first as an officer and now as a law clerk with the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Trials, was suspended on June 21 after he refu