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Man searched by NYPD 21 times settles case for $25G

The Brooklyn hospital manager who accused police of targeting him for subway bag searches because he looks Middle Eastern has settled his federal case for $25,000. Jangir Sultan, of Brooklyn, who is of South Asian descent, said that he had been stopped by the NYPD 21 times between April 2005 and April 2009, when he filed the suit in Brooklyn, and that the odds of that happening are 1 in 165 million....

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