A White woman who said a Southwest Airlines employee suspected her of trafficking her Black daughter is suing the airline for racial discrimination.
from the International Air Transport Association, the global trade body representing airlines, suggest that two of several possible indicators of human trafficking are when someone appears “fearful, timid, or submissive” and when they “defer to another person to speak for him or her or someone who seems to be in control of the situation.
When they were met by law enforcement at the jet bridge, MacCarthy’s first thought was that “the police were there to tell her about another death in her family,” according to the complaint. But then, police officers began to question her and her daughter separately and informed them that “a Southwest Airlines employee had reported them as suspicious” and MacCarthy “as a potential human trafficker.
Eventually, after MacCarthy explained to the officers why and where she and her daughter were traveling and showed them her ID, the officers let the pair proceed through the jet bridge and into the terminal at Denver International Airport. But the incident “was extremely traumatic” for MacCarthy’s daughter, the report said, adding that almost two years later, she “goes silent” when it is brought up.In a separate tweet, she added: “Any corporation engaging in racial profiling needs to be held accountable.”
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