NY police eyed US citizens in secret intelligence effort

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Amine Darhbach (above), a U.S. citizen originally from Morocco, cuts hair at his barber shop on Sept. 2. Darhbach had been under scrutiny by the New York Police Department as part of a secret program to gather intelligence on the city's Moroccan population.

The New York Police Department put American citizens under surveillance and scrutinized where they ate, prayed and worked, not because of charges of wrongdoing but because of their ethnicity, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Associated Press.