Woman mistaken for terrorist sues police

A Muslim woman is suing Chicago police who mistakenly identified her as a potential ‘lone wolf’ terrorist as she was leaving a city subway station last year on July 4 wearing a headscarf, face veil, and carrying a backpack.

Itemid Al-Matar says officers violated her civil rights by pulling off her religious garb as they arrested her on subway station stairs, then strip-searched her later at a police station, according to the federal lawsuit filed in Chicago on her behalf.

“Several [officers] ran up the stairs and grabbed the plaintiff and threw her down upon the stair landing, then pulling at her and ripping off her hijab,” says the lawsuit.