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Chief of Police Eddie Garcia
201 W. Mission Street
San Jose, CA 95110
RE: Discrimination Alleged by Muslim Police Officer
Dear Chief Garcia:
My name is Sally Horna, and I am a Legal Fellow at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, San
Francisco Bay Area (“CAIR-SFBA”) office. I write today regarding the recent news of a Muslim San Jose
Police Department (“SJPD”) officer’s allegations of the blatant racism he faced personally and the existing
culture of rampant religious bigotry within the SJPD.1 CAIR-SFBA was disappointed to learn of these
allegations.
According to reports, the officer, Nabil Haider, alleges the harassment began in 2011, when fellow SJPD
officers regularly asked Haidar, “How many infidels are you going to kill today?”; “You aren’t gonna fly an
airplane, are you?”; and “Have you lost your way to the White House?” SJPD officers even went so far as to
repeatedly call Haidar “Taliban” and “Bin Laden.”
More recently, in November 2017, Haidar attended a briefing where the Briefing Sergeant and Captain
recognized all the present veterans in honor of Veteran’s Day. Then, the Briefing Sergeant said, “Captain,
you forgot to mention Nabil. He is an ISIS veteran. He was with ISIS for two years.” In January 2018, while
Haidar was at the scene of a burglary, a fellow officer approached him making hand motions and an
explosion sound. The officer proceeded to make exploding sounds and used his hands to pretend he was a
suicide bomber. The officer then asked whether Haidar’s knife was a “F------ Lebanese throat cutter.” This
blatantly racist mockery was captured on Haidar’s body camera. Nevertheless, this officer moved closer to
the camera and gave Haidar the middle finger.
Haidar took appropriate measures and reported this incident with SJPD’s Internal Affairs. However, he
contends there has been no action taken with respect to either incident.
These allegations reflect an atmosphere of egregious workplace harassment and a troubling lack of
departmental oversight and accountability. All individuals should be able to work in environments free of
discrimination or harassment, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

1 See, e.g., Damian Trujillo, Muslim Officer Files Discrimination Claim Against SJPD, City, NBC BAY AREA (May 7, 2018),
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SJPD-Officer-Files-Discrimination-Claim-Against-Department-City-481990411.html;
see also Sophie Haigney, San Jose police officer alleges racist department culture against Muslims, SFGATE (May 8, 2018),
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Jose-police-officer-alleges-racist-department-12898438.php.
Unless substantial steps are taken to change the culture of the police force, these latest allegations will erode
the faith the public has in SJPD’s ability to protect and serve communities of color in a competent and
unbiased manner. Time and again, minority communities have raised concerns about the Department’s
ability to address concerns about its policing practices and various manifestations of racial bias.2
Unfortunately, this latest complaint demonstrates that SJPD continues to allow officers to make racist
remarks without proper consequences.3

To effectuate meaningful change and prevent a further erosion of community and confidence, CAIR-SFBA
urges SJPD to:
1. Investigate complaints of racial bias committed by police officers against their colleagues and
community members, and take corrective action
2. Implement Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, and South Asian (“AMEMSA”) cultural-sensitivity
education and training in SJPD’s periodic training bulletins, as well as in SJPD Academy’s
curriculum; and
3. Implement independent review mechanisms to ensure all complaints are adequately investigated and
corrective measures are successfully executed.
We are of course happy to meet with you to discuss these matters more fully or provide additional
information. We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely

Dear Minister,
I would like to thank you for the letter you sent to Commissioner Andriukaitis on 12 July
2017 (ref. 68/2017-GM-MAPA) and for the Ofício 1606/2017/CGSF-MAPA sent by Mr.
Odilson Silva, Secretary of International Relations of MAPA, inviting all EU Member
States already exporting to Brazil to update their establishment lists and proposing nine
new model certificates for the exports of products of animal origin. Commissioner
Andriukaitis has asked me to reply to you directly as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS)
matters related to EU exports to Brazil fall under my portfolio.
I welcome the update of establishments and the nine new model certificates, together
with the successful implementation by MAPA of the electronic system to register labels
(PGA/SIGSIF). I would like to thank you and your team for the good work done on
solving these issues. I believe the new system will allow EU exports to Brazil to flow
faster and the backlog of market access applications and certification issues will be
eliminated soon.
We have always and will continue handling SPS matters on their technical merits. It is
important that this progress in resolving the long-standing difficulties in market access of
agri-food exports to Brazil continues, in order to ensure that our relations on SPS issues
and mutual trade in such products are on a solid foundation.
I have instructed my services to write to yours and jointly coordinate all the necessary
technical work, including the full implementation of Portaria â„– 126.1 would propose our
teams focus their work on implementing the following areas:
- granting pre-listing to all EU Member States on a permanent basis and extending
approvals to other products areas;
- harmonising model certificates to address current problematic sanitary conditions;
- coordinating the preparation of the audits to the EU and simplification of
questionnaires;
H.E. Mr Blairo Maggi
Minister ofAgriculture, Livestock and Food Supply
Brazil
B-1049 BRUSSELS - TEL. (+32-2) 29B 63 66 - FAX (+32-2) 297 68 94
Ref. Ares(2017)4105557 - 21/08/2017
- streamlining pest risk analyses for plant products, and
- aligning fully SPS conditions ofBrazil with international standards.
- régionalisation for Avian Influenza in the EU.
I would like to congratulate your teams for the hard work and excellent cooperation over
the last years on these issues. I look forward to continuing our cooperation on SPS and
facilitating and increasing trade in agri-food products between the European Union and
Brazil