Source: The Columbus Dispatch
On August 29, 2002 The Columbus Dispatch reported "a Belmont County courtroom... judge found Jamilah Ali guilty of aggravated menacing for threatening the deputy sheriffs... in a remote eastern Ohio county... Ali has claimed she was abused after she was ordered from her car at gunpoint in a traffic stop since ruled illegal... and said she feared for her life as she lay in the roadside grit in her hijab, traditional Muslim head-to-toe garb... Belmont County deputies said they felt threatened, too... In October, [a judge] ruled the deputies had no probable cause to stop the vehicle in response to frantic 911 calls that persons wearing 'Arabian garb'' had been spotted at a nearby gas station... Jad Humeidan traveled 115 miles from the Ohio office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Columbus to watch the trial...
'This is a travesty of justice,' he said. 'Her civil rights were trampled from the time that car was stopped until she was sentenced.'''