Convicted Muslim rioter Omar Halaby clashes with police again, charged with using offensive language
Janet Fife - Yeomans
September 23,2013
THE rioter who smashed the windscreen of a police car with a milk crate has been arrested for using offensive language to police.
Omar Halaby, 19, also allegedly refused to allow a female police officer to take his fingerprints, telling her: "You can't make me do anything. It's against my religion to allow females to touch me."
Halaby earlier this year escaped with a 12-month good behaviour bond for his role in last September's Muslim riot in the Sydney CBD after his lawyer told magistrate Pat O'Shane that he suffered from learning and physical disabilities.
Police allege that at 4.40pm on Saturday, Halaby was the passenger in a white BMW which drove past a police operation as officers stopped vehicles in Bryant Street, Padstow.
It is alleged that he yelled out of the car window: "F … off dog c … s."
He was arrested and refused to provide his name or details and was taken to Bankstown police station where he allegedly "resisted violently" and refused to provide his fingerprints to a female officer.
Police called an Arabic-speaking male officer who took Halaby's fingerprints.
It is believed that Halaby was being investigated for collecting a $200-a-week pension while bragging on Facebook that he worked as a subcontractor on a construction site.
In January Halaby pleaded guilty to smashing the windscreen of a marked police car with a milk crate and assaulting a TV cameraman during last year's riot.
The court heard Halaby yelled Islamic slogans at the camera crew and pushed a cameraman during the protest. He paid $500 for the damage to the police car.
Just before his court appearance in January, he posted on Facebook: ``Having the time of my life at Downing Centre Local Court.'
"He has literacy issues, a short attention span, things to that effect,'' Legal Aid lawyer Sophie Edin told the court at the time. That's what happens when your Mother and Father are your older brother and sister.
Halaby was given police bail to appear before Bankstown Local Court on October 9 charged with using offensive language and resisting arrest.
Omar Halaby Bio
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