Word: hakim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...head of the local mosque, Hakim Hasbulla, 48, tried to hold the mob back, and a TIME correspondent attempted to plead for the man, but the two dozen attackers were beyond reason. Everyone wanted to get in a kick or a cut--it was a badge of pride to have taken part. "I don't agree with this," said Hasbulla immediately afterward, still shaking...
...nothing, Ryan and Blondie directed Colbert to his date's home on the next block. Within minutes, as Colbert and the woman were driving off, the same cops appeared again. After telling the woman to "get lost," they handcuffed Colbert and told him he resembled a drug dealer named Hakim. Procedure dictated that Colbert be booked at the 39th-district police headquarters, about a mile away. But Colbert wasn't in the land of official procedure; he was in the hands of Blondie. So, instead, he was taken to 1518 Ontario Street, a run-down three-story home and sometime...
...building, Colbert was put in a chair in the middle of a 9-ft. by 12-ft. back room on the first floor. Still in cuffs, he was beaten with fists, nightsticks and then a long-handled black flashlight. "We were trying to get him to admit he was Hakim," says Blondie, who agreed to talk to TIME over several days at a federal prison far from Philadelphia, where he is currently serving 13 years for violating the civil rights of Colbert and dozens of others and for stealing money during searches and arrests...
Still convinced they had Hakim, the officers took Colbert to the station house, where, in a detention room, they roughed him up some more. "We thought the change of venue might work," says Blondie. It didn't. Colbert wasn't Hakim and wouldn't say he was. So, with Colbert's house keys in hand, Ryan and Blondie then traveled outside their jurisdiction to search Colbert's apartment in the close-in suburb of Cheltenham. When nothing incriminating was found, the cops returned to headquarters and released Colbert--after six hours of terror. "Let us catch you around here again...
...hopes that will include at least a little room for organic, noncorporate funk. "I would like them to leave a little of New York for the old-timers, for New Yorkers," says Fred Hakim, who owns the aforementioned lunch counter and has been working in the area for 56 years. He is still waiting to find out if he will be able to continue operating in his space...