New York City’s dismissal of an otherwise promising police recruit because he wore an inch-long beard violated his constitutional right to practice his Chabad Lubavitch religion, a federal judge ruled.
Southern District Judge Harold Baer Jr. (See Profile) decided that, contrary to the city’s contention, the NYPD does not uniformly enforce its grooming rules for male officers limiting their facial hair to one millimeter in length.
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