Project WTF

[Twin-Skies]

The next time you're stuck in line because of bag checks or searches, look on the bright side - at least you're not in as much trouble as this poor chap:

NYC man says NYPD stopped him 21 times in subway

NEW YORK - A native New Yorker of South Asian descent claims police have stopped and searched him 21 times in the subway because of his race.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday by the New York Civil Liberties Union, Jangir Sultan, 32, says he is of Kashmiri descent and has dark eyes and brown skin and looks Middle Eastern. The occupational therapist says he was born in Brooklyn and has lived in New York nearly his entire life.

Sultan says he was stopped at various subway stations around the city after the New York Police Department implemented a search program in response to bombings in London in 2005.

At first, he said, he regarded the searches as a necessary part of life to prevent another terrorist attack. But then he started asking around, and realized none of his friends were being stopped with the same frequency, according to the lawsuit against the city and the NYPD filed in Brooklyn's federal court.