Watch: North Carolina YMCA calls police on Muslim woman because of her swimsuit

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Note: I tried to get this report off of the source and not use Raw Story, but couldn't find it. I thought it was important, so I'm using Raw Story.

Watch: North Carolina YMCA calls police on Muslim woman because of her swimsuit

A Charlotte, North Carolina Muslim woman and her two daughters were accosted by a YMCA staffer, who apparently mistook their mother’s swimwear as a threat to public safety.

WJZY reports that a YMCA staffer called police after objecting to the mother’s swimwear.

“What am I doing that is wrong? Watching my daughters? At my age I am not going to strip naked,” the mother says in the video, justifying her swimming attire.

The officer insisted she strip down.

“Under the YMCA policy you do not have proper swim attire,” says the CMPD officer in the video.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/watch-north-carolina-ymca-calls-police-muslim-woman-swimsuit/

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1. People wear non traditional swimming attire for many other reason besides their religious

dictates. Overweight people, pregnant women, nursing women, post mastectomy women, often wear an overshirt or other garments as a cover up. People with heart or circulatory disease may have to wear pressure stockings. People with injuries, disfiguring scars, skin diseases, or other deformities also might use additional clothing.

Lots of women are just modest and don't want to be ogled by strangers when they are wearing only a swimsuit, or maybe they might feel chilled, so they add other clothing as needed.

Clothing restrictions should be limited to things that would endanger people or be a safety issue. No fur coats in the pool, no stilettos on the diving board, that sort of stuff.