In state Alizona, under which situation is it least likely that a crime has been committed where its legislature passed a law making it a crime to interfere with "any right conferred by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution"?

Select one:

a. Defendant, threatening violence, induced a school bus driver, employed by a public school district, to refuse Muslim students rides solely because of their religion.

b. Defendant, the proprietor of a restaurant located in a state office building and rented from the state, refused to serve Turkish immigrants solely because of their place of national origin.

c. Defendant, the manager of a Section 8 apartment building funded and operated by a federal housing agency, refused to rent an apartment to a Palestinian family solely because of their race.

d. Defendant, the Fire Chief in Alizona's capital, a large city, refused to hire homosexuals as paramedics or firemen solely because of their sexual preference.