The agency responsible for investigating complaints against Chicago police is looking into last year's arrest of a Muslim woman whom officers mistakenly identified as a potential terrorist as she walked from a subway station.
A spokeswoman for the Independent Police Review Authority says ItemidAl-Matar submitted a complaint shortly after the incident. Al-Matar filed a civil rights lawsuit last week alleging officers singled her out simply because she wore a religious headscarf and veil. The suit says officers pulled off the garb and later strip-searched her.
A police report says officers had been "on high alert of terrorist activity" on the Fourth of July when they spotted Al-Matar wearing a backpack and exhibiting what it described as "suspicious behavior."
