{"id":159,"date":"2004-08-09T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=159"},"modified":"2005-05-25T00:04:24","modified_gmt":"2005-05-25T05:04:24","slug":"sikh_cops_can_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/sikh_cops_can_w\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikh cops can wear turbans in NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amric Singh Rathour, a New York cop who happens to be Sikh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nynewsday.com\/news\/local\/manhattan\/nyc-nysikh293909739jul29,0,2261686.story?coll=nyc-topheadlines-manhattan\">can now wear a turban<\/a> as part of his official uniform. Sikhs have a long tradition of police and military service in the Mounties, UK police forces and regiments during the British Raj. Congrats to attorney Ravi Bhalla, a friend from UC Berkeley, for the legal victory, one of a ceaseless tide for religious freedoms.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>&#8220;It&#8217;s the first time New York City will see turbaned Sikh officers,&#8221; said Amardeep Singh, the legal director for the Sikh Coalition. &#8220;This is like our Rosa Parks, our first big civil rights victory in this country.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amric Singh Rathour, a New York cop who happens to be Sikh, can now wear a turban as part of his official uniform. Sikhs have a long tradition of police and military service in the Mounties, UK police forces and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/sikh_cops_can_w\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}