Woman of Iranian descent alleges slur by California Highway Patrol

A California woman of Iranian descent is suing the California Highway Patrol alleging that a patrol officer said that her ‘people’ responsible for the 9/11 attacks. According to a report in Tehran Press TV, Zahra Sedaghatpur 38, from Fremont was pulled over by a highway patrol for speeding, when Officer Jon Schatmeier 38 accused her and people like her of being responsible for the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. According to a lawsuit filed on March 29 2007 in federal court in San Francisco Schatmeire told the woman to “shut up” and refused to show his identification card. ‘Today is September 12. Do you remember Sept.11? Do you know what happened on Sept.11?’ the officer allegedly said. ‘It’s people like you who killed all of our people. This is our country. Why don’t you go back to your own country?’ “