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Mayor Bloomberg Apologizes Over “Unnecessary” Detentions

HeadlineJul 27, 2005

In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has apologized to a group of British tourists who were targeted over the weekend as possible terror suspects. On Saturday, New York police stormed a sightseeing bus and detained five tourists visiting from the British city of Birmingham. The tourists were all Sikh. They were handcuffed and forced to kneel on the street. Police evacuated the entire bus and then searched the belongings of the passengers. The police came to the bus after an employee from the tour bus company — Gray Line–alerted them about the Sikh tourists acting suspicious. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said “I certainly apologize on behalf of the city of New York any time we ever detain anybody unnecessarily.”

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