42-year-old Mary MacCarthy was stopped at a Denver airport and was accused of trafficking her child.
A woman shared a video after a Southwest Airlines staffer reported her to his superiors just because of a false accusation.point 223 |
She had been traveling with her 10-year-old black daughter in Southwest Airlines when this incident happened.point 94 | Her little daughter started sobbing after she and her white mother were pulled aside when they reached the airport after being flagged up for human trafficking.point 229 | 1
Mary MacCarthy is a single mother and lives in Los Angeles.point 158 | She works in a tech company and has a black biological daughter who has been traumatized by the police at the airport.point 255 |
Elaborating about the incident, the white mother said that some police officers informed her that an employee had reported her suspicious behavior with her daughter during the flight.point 156 | 1
Furious at the accusation, the 42-year-old woman slammed both the Denver Police Department and the airline, proclaiming that the anonymous staffer’s suspicion was nothing but a racist assumption about a mixed-race family.point 477 |
She wants the police department and the airline staff to be held accountable for this mistreatment.point 84 | This incident happened when she and her daughter were about to make their way through the jet bridge after landing at the Denver International.point 204 | 1
She was suspected as a potential human trafficker just because she and her daughter didn’t talk much during the flight. Mary later cleared that as she was sleeping most of the time and her daughter was listening to an audiobook, so it is pretty obvious why they didn’t talk much.
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