Updated On: 08 February, 2017 06:00 AM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
<p>A 38-year-old hijab-wearing police officer has sued the New York Police Department, claiming her colleagues bullied her by calling her 'terrorist and Taliban', while some others even beat her up</p>


NY cop sues police department for being physically and mentally abused after she started wearing a hijab. Representational Pic
38-year-old Danielle Alamrani has sued the New York Police Department (NYPD). Why? Because Danielle, who joined the NYPD in 2006 and converted to Islam a year later, claims that she was harassed, bullied, and even beaten up, after she began wearing a hijab to work in 2008.