This has happened to me 3 times in 5 years with my daughter. It’s always somebody who thinks they are going to be the hero by saving a little brown girl from a terrible white guy when in actuality they are being racist by racial profiling me as if it’s outside the realm of possibility that my wife is black and my children are mixed. I’d sue the airline to & I hope she wins!!
Yeah Ive seen this bit of cool white man backlash in this crazy, PC, stupid United states. If you want to get racial about it, white guys still ROCK!!!!
There’s no reason for them to even investigate her for child trafficking, unless they’re racial profiling. While they’re staring at her because her daughter is biracial an actual child trafficker could be sitting few rows back and they’d have no idea. They should be looking for strange behaviour by the adult or child. How do you become a full grown adult and not know there are mixed race families?
Moreover, even if they weren't related, that doesn't automatically mean trafficking, there are _countless_ other, and statistically more likely explanations. They just jumped to conclusions and made assumptions out of thin air. I wonder if they had recently seen the new Jim Caviezel movie. 🤔 People said it could be fuel for more Pizzagate incidents. 🤦
People have stopped human trafficking cases by reporting minor suspicious behavior. I see absolutely nothing wrong with "racial profiling" in this case. It was a huge red flag.
@@johnc3525 I thought America was a country for freedom. But I guess if you’re black or interracial. Less freedom for you. Do you not realize that it is traumatizing especially to the children to see their parents being talked to with their custody at stake?
My nightmare. I’m white with a darker biracial child. I travel (even by car) with her birth certificate. In addition, she has high functioning autism. While most people see her as “normal,” I dread the day she has an autistic meltdown in public and someone thinks I’m kidnapping her.
Its a "catch 22" situation. If the flight attendant were to start quizzing or asking questions of this woman on the flight (e.g., asking both of their last names, questions trying to determine legitimacy of their relationship) the flight attendants would be accused of racial profiling, or invasion of privacy, racial stereotyping,etc.) The fact is there was something that caused the flight attendant to question the legitimacy of the mother/daughter relationship and she acted on it. If the flight attendant HAD actually prevented a child abduction by doing the exact same thing, everyone would be calling her a hero and praising her for doing her job and taking action.
The airline should definitely have handled this differently. I know they are trying to do the right thing but this is definitely not the way to go about it.
Knaw! That gold digger is breeding kids to use as pawns in a scheme to collect big paychecks from multi-million dollar corporations. Litigation is big, profitable, iniquitous business in the good ole' USA>
1:14 The flight attendant was "concerned about the behavior" of these two when they boarded the aircraft? What suspicious behavior did they exhibit, other than being together??
I'm black, my wife is Asian, we've two children. I experience this once or twice per month. They're not trying to do the right thing because even when you show proof, they refuse to even look at it. They're just trying to have two minutes of glory, trying to prove they're a good person, by being racist.
Should of married a black woman. U going through racist shit anyway. I been married 21 years to a black woman. Beautiful kids who look like my family no stranger blood . And all the racist people. Our racist. I teach them not to make your mistake. Stay with your own.
At first I was thinking this woman was being a Karen, but after hearing the part where the tsa? was claiming she was lying about her reason for travel, I hope she gets a healthy settlement, for the harassment.
@@johnc3525 time wasted going after real perps, instead they probably were exercising some kind of bias and harassing an innocent person, because they could.
@@johnc3525 She was discriminated against and her child was traumatised. The airline crew didn't even bother to check her paperwork and called the cops on her based on assumptions. Then they lied to her face when they realised they messed up. Good for her that she's taking them to court and calling them out---hopefully it will stop them from racially profiling and harassing people simply because they can.
@@johnc3525 Additional stress and trauma while grieving. Being late and potentially missing another flight while traveling for her brother's funeral. How callous and morally superior are you? Ugly ugly comments you are making which show just how out of touch you are. And don't cry about the child potentially being trafficked...you realise that white traffickers could travel with white children as well and more likely. Traffickers are not idiots...they are horrific and pretty inhuman but they know how to get around things. Asking for better trafficking training is something you should be rejoicing not degrading since you don't want things to change. She is asking for better training. She is open to TSA questioning. The airline could also question her when booking. Hell, the damn flight attendant could have used their brain and looked at the flight manifest and seen they have the same last name. If anyone is the Karen here, it is you.
@@mravina1614She said the child was traumatized before. No normal child becomes hysterical because a cop is talking to their mother. Sorry, but yeah, non-matching parent/child is a red flag for child trafficking. It's the kind of thing people need to be paying attention to. The airline called the cops so they would check her paperwork. What did they lie about? Clearly, you and all the woke people care more about your feelings and ego than the safety of children. If she wins, child traffickers will also win. I guess it shows what side you're on.
This is completely unacceptable. "What do you want?" is not the right question in this situation. Accountability & mandatory training at the very least need to happen.
@@Myas-Loyal-Fan Are you for real? You know how many people have children who don't look like them? Not to mention, they do look alike when it comes to the estructure of their faces. But you're probably focusing on eye color, lips, nose, and hair texture. That airline doesn't need extra human trafficking training, what they need is anti-Karen hiring training.
What's the training here? Ignore red flags? Society has to opt, either we are politically correct and mind our business and let potential child trafficking happen, or we keep an eye for red flags and risk false positives. Sorry, but non-matching ethnicity is an obvious red flag. This woman should have mandatory training to be less sensitive and be like "oh, sure, here's my documentation, thanks for checking that people are safe".
I’m a very old biracial family and I know how people look at you differently. Thanks for standing up and like I say there are many more people like me these days.
They couldn't get on the aircraft unless they *ALREADY* had all the right documents. The checking process to obtain the passports is VERY rigorous and is much more thorough and in depth than a single airline employee can do with a brief look at someone's face.
Human trafficking is proliferating And it’s being cracked down My suggestion right know Don’t travel with kids that look different culture Bc you’re going to get stopped Millions are being trafficked Every scared to say ‘ that’s not your kid’?
@@thurston4mor If the name on the ticket matches the name on the passport; if the face in the passport matches the actual face, that will make problems less likely.
Same thing happened to me on a family vacation to Dominican Republic…… my son and I were pulled out of line and I had to prove he was my son….. he’s disabled, in a wheelchair. I don’t know why I brought all of our birth certificates with us but I’m glad I did.
There was a teacher who tried to teach her students about that. She divided the class up into brown eyes and blue eyes ( I assume they were all white) and then told one group that they were better than the other and deserved better treatment. The kids saw the stupidity of this logic because it was not something they had control over. I am giving a very superficial run down... I wish I could remember more.
Jane Elliot.. im glad she did it because yes always get privileged and a pat on the back while blacks get killed and jailed for this mess... I kind of dint have sympathy because everyone is making excuses for her well being and the chid but if she were black these comments will be different@@macforme
@@macforme Jane Elliott. The kids who were made to feel less than was traumatized and their school work suffered because they felt they were inferior and wasn't smart. Some of those kids were A students. She taught them how Black people are treated because of skin color. I would like to know how the kids turned out as adults knowing it didn't feel good when the shoe was on the other foot. Yes, they were all white children. She did the experiment by eye color and hair color.
I grew up in a foster home here in Canada. My foster parents are Indonesian born and I’m a white Canadian born female. Here we were told we looked alike even though we’re a different race completely, no one ever questioned that I belonged with them. It makes me really sad that people are treated this way in America.
Maybe you should learn about child trafficking. That's why idiots are so amazed by Sound of freedom because they only heard about it now. In many parts of the world there are posters asking for people to report activity that may indicated human trafficking, airports particularly. The airline did their job. Stop being so sensitive and ignorant.
It's not just in America, it happens everywhere. Even in Canada! Racism isn't just a sickness here, there was a story a couple of months ago, not about a child per se, the mother had gotten up from her seat to do something with her child. She came back and a women was in her seat! She refused to move. They kicked the mother off the plane instead of the person that won't move to her assigned seat. The mother was a black women, the other white. It happens more often then we realize.
I’m Canadian as well and can not imagine this happening in any airport in this country. Be on guard, yes, but this is just so outrageous. I love America, but it’s just becoming one big vortex of anxiety, anger, fear, rage and irrational behavior.
@@canoegirl6335 You are absolutely correct. If one lives in a neighborhood that is relatively safe and crime-free, that person often becomes paranoid when going into unknown areas for fear of exactly what you listed, as well as the possibility of some negative encounter with the police.
Happens to me all the time. They never believe a black lady can have an Asian son. I am Blasian so yeah he looks very Asian. And yes it usually happens at airports.
It's not biological impossible that her kid looks Asian. A lot of half Asian kids look more Asian then black. I'm Asian and my wife is black, our kid looks like me but with a slight tan. Most people mistake him for south east Asian (Filipino)
I'm not belittling what happened to her, but this happens to black men with their biracial children every day. The singer Halsey said for the longest time she had a mistrust of white women because they called the police on her father when they were at the mall, or just out in public.
@@LubeGehrig Oh, I see... english is your second-language. If you read the comment again, black men have the police called on them because they have biracial children that look white. And racist will not believe that a black man has a son or daughter that has blonde hair and blue eyes. I hope I used enough small words to make it easy for you this time. I cannot dumb it down any more than that.
@itsmecasper1978 Maybe read more carefully…? The claim was, that men WHO ARE BIRACIAL FATHERS experience this kind of stuff a lot more! And OF COURSE THEY DO! Being a single man interacting with kids raises suspicious eye brows, so being a single dad is tough enough. Now imagine being a BLACK single man interacting with (what people percieves as) a white child, so people don‘t even give the benefit of the doubt that it could be your kid… Of course single black men with biracial parents receive A LOT of unwarranted suspicion.
If human trafficking is such an issue they should be checking every child and parent duo. If I was scum enough to do something like this I sure as hell wouldn't pair two visually different looking people with each other. 🤔🤨
IKR? That's what I said, that it's ridiculous to jump to conclusions only because they look different because it means they'd be letting all the actual cases slide just because they pass. 🤦 Also, they ignored all the other possible explanations and jumped straight to a statistically unlikely one. This smacks of a less harmful Pizzagate incident, just like what people warned the new Jim Caviezel movie could trigger. 😒
Very true! I believe it's bigotry in most cases when it's a white father or mother with a darker skin complexion. For those of us that are 40 and older, Eartha Kitt had the same problem with her daughter, because of her daughter being lighter then her. However Miss. Kitt didn't just have that happen on planes, but everywhere she went. People need to think before speaking. Ask questions, like... she is beatiful, how old is she, have you two traveled before. Does she get sick, or is she a pro at this? And you do it with a smile, not accusation! Not all families look alike, so be kind!
@@michellec5407 When did this happen to Ms. Kitt? She was world-renowned. Most people knew more about her business than she cared for them to know. Whenever she entered a plane, they knew who she was. Even if they didn't, it was easy to imagine her being a suntanned woman with her daughter. Airlines must get a better policy than.this unless they want to go bankrupt. This us a case of racial profiling in the worst way.
I have biracial children too. And one time I was walking with my mother-in-law who is black and has since passed. But at the time an ignorant Walmart employee asked her if she was her grandchild's nanny.
I wonder what behavior they are referring to that she said the attendants were concerned about in the video. 🤔 My heart breaks for her daughter as I heard her crying in the video. She must have been terrified about possibly being taken away from her Mom.
Traveling while black. That behavior. The flight attendant who lied on video needs to be sued as well. The only way for this airline to learn and produce updated training and make their employees accountable. Is to have some of those quarterly earning taken away by way of a law suit.
@@TKO67 In this case it wasn't traveling while black because they accused the white mother. Passports are supposed to be hard to fake so as long as the passport was presented it doesn't seem fair to question her. Also 38% of human trafficking done through flights is pretty high so its a tradeoff to ensure people are not trafficking. They just need to work on a more respectable approach.
My son is biracial and we fly occasionally. We never had this experience, but we were asked some questions by the TSA, and we get a lot of looks. What happened to this woman and her daughter is terrible and I hope Southwest does the right thing.
NOOOO, I hope they pay through the nose for stepping in and inconveniencing a customer that had wasn't doing anything wrong. As an agent I'd look for actions from the girl, is she comfortable or stressed? does she look like this is being forced on her? What was their motive for calling the police? Obviously they missed their flight, what compensation did they offer? None I bet
No, if we want people to report suspicious activity to authorities, I'm sorry, but you will have to grow up and understand that your situation does raise suspicions and that there's nothing wrong with making sure kids are safe.
*Using race as the basis of every lawsuit is utter wickedness. Frequent frivolous litigation in the USA is a disgusting affair in pursuit of riches. That crap does not fly easily in the REST OF THE WORLD.*
My sister-in-law is white and married to a black man. Their girls all married dark skin black men. My sister-in-law and husband have started having grand children and both are dark skinned Black boys. Honestly, it does look a little strange when I see pictures on Facebook of my sister-in-law’s parents with their dark chocolate great grand sons with braids. lol They love them a lot though and that’s what matters most.❤
Creature, I wrote my grandkids! But nothing like the hate of a Christian. You see we are ALL ONE RACE…HUMAN RACE. I am in the red Christian south. In fact, I am in Orange Moses’ district , the worst of the second worst state of our Union. So, I am used to bigoted, aggressive behavior from the Christian clan. I will pray for you! In the USA, half of the households are missing a father, man, husband…..and our planet is in serious peril…in the hands of bigoted men. You are now on a huge prayers list. And, when you die, you will go to heaven, for Jesus died so you could. BUT, she is a black lady! Blessings in this new year, only the strong will survive! @@Leviathan762-zh4lq
Oh Poppy, I was not impressed with your opening inquiring as to why the mother is suing SW. "Why did you file suit....WHAT DO YOU WANT.....What's the ultimate goal, here." Please Poppy, show more compassion, rather than ask questions that point to an ulterior motive of this mother.
Agree. This was a no brainer as to why the law suit was filed. It was a racial discrimination case plain and simple. She did not need to be interrogated by the TV interviewer on that point. Really it was just about the mother telling her story. The interviewer could have handled that part better by simply saying this is a racial discrimination case and then get no to the story about the experience the mother and child had. The focus should have been on the poor judgement of the flight attendant, inadequate training etc... People are ID vetted before they get on a plane, so the first point of call would have been to discretely check the vetting records if there was any doubt at all. No need for this traumatic experience to have occurred and then be blatantly lied about by the airline staff. Totally unacceptable. It was poor judgement by the airline staff member and they have to admit that and own up to their error in judgement and handling of the situation.
I might add that it was clearly outlined as a racial discrimination case at the start of the video, so the interrogation part seems rather superfluous.
Honest mistake or not, it waws poor judgement either way and poorly handled. Also to accuse a customer of lying without any subtantive evidence is atrocious behaviour from the flight attendant.
Oh, been there...mine was at Toronto Pearson in 2017...all other passengers passing you and giving you a second take while my son panicked!! So distressing!!! Glad someone has the guts to stand up to a large organization!!
i hope this woman loses thousands of dollars when she LOSES. Airlines should investigate EVERY REPORT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING. i would rather be stopped with my kids EVERY TIME than let someone get away with trafficking. an conversation cant be traumatizing. try experiencing something ACTUALLY Traumatizing, like being trafficked
I’m so glad this brave mom is speaking up about this because it happens all the time. This exact thing happened to my friend who has a biracial daughter with blue eyes and the mom’s black. The Airline took her aside and questioned why she has a white child when she is balck. This was 2005 and I can’t believe the same thing is still happening.
@@johnc3525If the child is distressed, abnormally quiet, dissociating, etc. I could understand and the attendant should be able to use good sense and ask questions. The attendant didn't ask them anything, just assumed. SW airlines also lied on video about why this woman was traveling with her daughter (probably to save their own ass). I think you're deliberately being obtuse.
@@eg4417You need to learn more about child trafficking and how children are gullible. You truly can't imagine a child being told she's a friend of her mom's who's taking her to Disney or whatever? Or she could be truly a mom's friend who decided to kidnap the kid. I mean, you must be 13 or never read the news. The attendant isn't the police, her job is to inform the authorities of suspicious behavior. How in the world would SW know why she's traveling???
Yep her daughter is mortified. She said she clams up when spoken to about this. The daughter had to go through therapy... the mom is making the event an EVENT! if I don't want my kids to worry about something or be traumatized I play it cool at natural . This mom is traumatizing her daughter.
I support the mom 100%, I also agree that the cops were just doing their jobs and don't blame them, but it should not be expected that the mom and daughter need to put up with being stopped and questioned by police just because they look different every time they travel. Her and her daughters rights don't end just because other people break the law and commit crimes.
@@johnstarks32It seems they simply don't care about children trafficking. If I were a parent in that situation I would be glad that someone's checking on children*. If my kid was kidnapped I would hope people would ask them for ID. But these people's egos are way, way too inflated to think about others. Also, she said herself that she's prepared for that situation cos she knows it's a red flag. So why be a Karen? Edit: I mean, she found an opportunity to make easy money, that's why.
bingo bango. i would still prefer for them to have an approach less implicative, professional in requesting some basic information, and not calling the police unless the situation escalates. but still i'm with you on that dichotomy.
@@robosing225 Yes, you have a point about calling the police. Ask some questions and the call if you get shady answers. It’s not like they can go anywhere, so you can call the police whenever.
My point exactly. People are outraged in retrospect. But I guarantee you that in the future, many, many people will just look away and mind their own business. Who in their right mind would want to be the object of public ridicule, law suits, being "doxed," or fired? Just for wanting to make sure that a child is safe--and finding out that "Yes, the child is safe and with her mother." There are biracial children in my family--through adoption. If I were taking them somewhere, and I were questioned by the police, I would cooperate, smile, and show that passports or whatever else I had as ID. Much worse would be that a child were taken, people were reluctant to butt in, and later it would be too late to remedy.
@@pixie_the_rabbit4190 I agree with everything you are saying. And it occurred to me as I was reading it that possibly the mother could have been the primary catalyst for the child’s reaction. I wonder if she told her that “everything is okay and that it’s a good thing that people are vigilant because if she were ever taken I would want that as your mom.” Or something along those lines. It seems like all this brouhaha isn’t weighted toward the better and instead toward a settlement or something. Plus who says it was even racially motivated? I’m not discounting racial profiling, and god knows it’s a real issue, but it isn’t always that. I was a truck driver for many years and child trafficking agency now work with trucking companies to give a course on this same thing. What to look for to spot possible problems since many of these girls are put to work at truck stops. I would hate to think that reporting a possible problem could have resulted in a law suit. Perhaps they should create a law similar to the Good Samaritan law where if you report a possible situation in good faith you can’t be sued. Edit: That got rambling. Sorry 😅
Genes are unique. Me and my brother look different to the point people have flat out said to my face if by chance my mom had an affair. It makes me self conscious about my appearance because I’m multiracial and I hate when people ask me my racial background and then look so surprise to then ask me why I look the way I do.
This is beyond reasonable. I don't understand what looked suspicious but have a real good clue and Southwest is about to write a check. I would also like to know how many other cases are floating around out there.... this can't be the only one.
I am so happy that there are ppl trying to actively stop/prevent child trafficking. However if that person is not trained to identify what/how a child may act if they are being held against their will then they need to take a step back and assess the situation. My heart breaks for this young girl because she is biracial she already has internal dialogue about not looking black enough or white enough and then a total stranger makes disgusting allegations against her mother based on the fact they don't look alike. I know what that does to a person's self image. I am glad the mom is sueing.
Calling the police 🤦 I would think during boarding while showing boarding pass that identification is also shown ? That poor girl being traumatised and humiliated. Mom is going to her brother's funeral and now had to deal with this as well 😠
Listening to this for the first time, I can’t believe that her first question to this mother is “What do you want???” Well, I’m not surprised here. It just goes to show why this type of racial discrimination continues to happens in this country because some in her position don’t understand what that feels like, as she would never experience it. It doesn’t matter whether it might have been a mistake from one person, it takes more than one person mistakes for it to have gone that far and to get the police involved. Did anyone even stop to think?? This is beyond sad.
It wasn't racial profiling. The daughter did not speak to her mother during the entire flight, and appeared to be upset. That is why concern for her was expressed by the airline to the Denver police. This mother should be glad that airlines are sensitive to possible trafficking . 38% of trafficked children are transported via commercial airlines.
This isnt good because there are actual people that do get trafficked. Just a few years ago an airline called the cops on a guy that was suspicious with a little girl . Turned out he was trafficking her and she was saved. This mom is an idiot . Mistakes happen and just because it happened once , she sues and will ruin any chances of future kids being saved .
I hate racism. People assuming... it is insane that some people still think that the segregation of the past that leads to just one type of family that basically all look relatively the same is how everyone still lives. Most of us do not live in the past we look forward and embrace the future where everyone is bi-racial and racism is eliminated.
The airline has all the information about them that they need to verify who she is and everything. The airline and authorities could have did the investigation in the background and not bothered them at all and come to a conclusion the authorities need. The itch to take a quick route by reporting parties and officials can affect lives unnecessarily and criminally by those officials.
No they do not! When you book a fight there is no personal information asked of you about the child other then name and age. Id is required for adults but children are not checked. The airline just assumes that its your child especially if they are young. People would loose their sheit if every time they air traveled with their kids they had to go to a process of verifying if the child you are traveling with is yours or not.
@@yvettemontalvo7991So you think you can get on a passenger Airplane and show no ID? I'm a retired information systems tech, your ill informed. Their systems are hooked into Customs and Homeland Security, no need to even ask the passengers a question or stop them. There photo footprints on the Internet is seconds away!
When you go through customs in Europe, domestic flight or not, if you have a minor with you, it's mandatory to show you have custody (if you're a single parent) or a signed document and copy of the passport of the other parent proving that you have permission to fly with your kid. This is all to prevent child trafficking or abduction. It should be normalised. Everyone should be checked. Takes away all room for speculation.
@@Luke-qy8id Im from the US and here things are different because people will whine about it (primadonas). I feel its a good thing that they want to make sure you are traveling with your child and not a pervert.
As a black guy who has 3 biracial children I’m a bit torn by this. Yeah, I would be kinda angry and humiliated if this happened to me; however, it’s good they are looking out for the wellbeing of children so I can’t be too upset about it in the grand scheme of things.
It wasn't the fact that they were checking on the child. That's fine. It was about the process in how they "checked" on the child. Apparently they just assumed the child wasnt hers, instead of asking the proper questions to solve their confusion.
I agree that is good they are looking out for this, but this could have been avoided if they asked her for her ID and birth certificate, which she had. Also racial bias does a disservice to fighting human trafficking because there is no data that say that children that are trafficked have a different skin color than their traffickers.
Although it’s good that they look out for things like this, but it isn’t fair that interracial couple have to go through this. They should then ask for birth certificates of all minors who travel on airplanes to be submitted prior to travel.
Due diligence is one thing, but the attendants lying about why the mother was or wasn't traveling with a biracial child while its on bodycam recordings and risking harm to the mother and daughter is definitely NOT ok. If those attendants did not voice it as opinion, but stated it as fact then the police could have reacted out of proportion to in regards to the reality.
Due diligence* - What happened to the interactive process in asking questions and investigating before calling the police? I'm glad the Mother spoke up and is bringing awareness that further training is necessary.
This mother is a hero in my book. As a single mother myself with children with different last names, as well as a divorce lawyer who has represented African American parents with biracial children, this is a huge problem, not just of profiling on flights, but in grocery stores and other public places. Racial profiling cannot be tolerated.
The thing is the arrogance when you yourself know it’s your kid. It becomes an indictment on your character. As a parent you’d be floored if you heard peoples suspicions. I’m more than glad to just go about my business. Even worse as a single dad with a bi racial daughter.
They profiled the mother not the daughter. The mother is teaching her daughter to have a victim mentality when the airline were just trying to do the right thing
How would a flight attendant have the gall to tell anyone that they are lying about going to a funeral??? That's a lot of stupid nerve! This whole thing is beyond disturbing! Those flight attendants should have been FIRED!
This is so scary! I am the mother of 3 children…2 have my coloring and one is much darker and takes after his part Chinese, part white father. I also have a friend who has a son that doesn’t look like her because she is white and her son’s father is black. This happens all too often. America is very diverse and there are many, many mixed race families. Trafficking does need to be addressed, but racial profiling is not the answer.
It seems very odd that a staff member couldn't have a friendly conversation with the mother and child, and figure out that trafficking was unlikely. I agree, there may be instances where a child seems upset or drugged, when more questions may be necessary, but this is nuts.
I want to know EXACTLY what she “did” that caused the flight attendant to think this and EXACTLY what evolved over the course of the flight and why this was even a thing. I am all for keeping kids safe, but was there any legitimate cause for concern? And for what it’s worth if I was going to traffic a child, or anyone for that matter, I would absolutely not want to bring the person into an area where I’m on hundreds of cameras and pass by lots of law enforcement…..that has got to be the dumbest way to actually traffic someone.
They're both so beautiful. The Mom look just like the woman who plays "Kats Mom" in the movie Casper. On another note she is absolutely correct. Hearing her daughter cry you can tell she is traumatized. Her mom is doing right. I love how she is showing her daughter FIRST of all people that she will take a stand for her no matter what and she'll fight for her no matter the consequences.
"Screening for child trafficking" is the new dog whistle for racial profiling. I fly often and it's not difficult to see the interaction between a parent and child regardless of skin color. I don';t know why we are empowering clueless flight attendants to be the judge in this. We are doing a lot of harm in the name of "good".
Im mulatto (white mom, black dad) and my cousin is too. We were in walmart with our moms when we were about 7? And we got lost and a walmart employee found us and took us to customer service and made an announcement that they found two kids. Our moms came up to claim us and the employees refused to release us to our moms even though we eere crying "mommy mommy" and reaching for our moms. They asked us repeatedly if this was our mom and we said yes. This was way before the himan trafficing phase. And the employees were white. I dont know their motives but I assume that they looked at us with our afros and our stereotypical white moms and just couldnt believe these white women would stoop so low to have mixed kids and must instead be stooping so low as to steal someone's children.
Good job mom. It has happened to me multiple times. I am Caribbean with dark skin and my daughter is multiracial her skin is white because she is mixed with Chinese and Spanish. Although i may sympathize for this mother but welcome to what happens to us Black mothers and fathers daily. How do you think we feel? You will fight the battle for the rest your lives. Sorry your baby has to go through this. Let her know she better get ready because racism is very real in the United States. Her identity will be a huge struggle for her. Please have conversations with her and be transparent. It’s harder for them than it is for us.
@@busterofcoviddeniers Considering that there is no biological basis for "race" as it's purely a social construct, a person can absolutely be Caribbean in terms of ethnicity and/or nationality. I'm half Pakistani and when asked about my ethnicity, I identify either as such or as half South Asian even though my nationality is American.
@@busterofcoviddeniers Based on the full original comment, I stand by my response. It is not incorrect of someone to identify based on their ethnicity.
Totally warranted reaction to assumptions based solely by looking different. It's very hurtful to those signaled for no reason and it's definitely a bully attitude from the airline employees, no less
Better safe than sorry. No one was harmed. Good for the airl;ine for being proactive. Is it better to do nothing and perhaps allow trafficking to go unnoticed?
Did you not hear the child crying? I think she was caused some harm. The airline employees went about this the wrong way. Proper, inclusive comprehensive training re trafficking is required. People need to check their biases. This woman should NOT have to carry around all this documentation for her own child.
I could have sued a lot of times if that’s the case! I have way worse stories than this! 😂 But yeah, if their only “evidence” was the color of the skin, then this is ridiculous. But again, as a black man, I have more than one story where people acted OUTRAGEOUSLY due to nothing more than the color of my skin.
The thing is. They didnt even approach the two first..they silently called the cops in the background and then they were approached by cops. The airline rep didn't have the stones to approach and ask.
I’m sorry for this woman, but I absolutely would rather the airline employees make a mistake than not call & a child not get saved. I think she’s either looking to get a bunch of money, prove a point, or get revenge because her feelings are hurt. She’s going to end up hurting trafficked children. I say this as someone who got told in school that I had to be adopted & my parents lied about it because some people didn’t believe it was possible for a brown-skinned woman to have a fair-skinned, white kid. I didn’t like it, I found it annoying, etc., but it wasn’t racism & it wasn’t something to go into battle over.
This is so hard to think about. So many black girls are trafficked because no one pays attention to them. At the same time this can happen if someone is over vigilant. How do we balance this?
As a mother of a biracial child, I can respect this was difficult and embarrassing, and I understand addressing with the airline corporate/FAA, but by making this a federal case, all it will do is discourage travel employees from reporting what they see. And that’s not what we need.
Thank you! My point exactly! There are biracial kids in my family. I would never, ever care that someone was concerned enough about the kids to check! Like I said, from now on, many people will just look away and mind their own business. No one in their right mind will take the chance that they will be publicly shamed, rebuked, labeled racist... Very, very sad. Just when we have all been made aware and have been told to be alert...we figure out that if it doesn't concern us, don't take a chance of being wrong!
or, maybe be trained in the art of critical thinking?...sorely lacking in this country! or just properly assess the situation...look for signs of stress! discreetly!
How long were they detained? That would be an important factor in how unjustified and traumatic the incident may have been. Also, whether they were separated during questioning I was traveling back from a ski vacation in Canada to the US with a male friend of ours and his daughter. The mom doesn't ski. The man and his daughter were briefly detained, in separate rooms, while they were questioned about whether she was really his daughter. It did not take long, no more than 10 minutes or so. The man was glad that someone would have been looking out for his daughter had she actually been kidnapped. All of us made our connecting flight back home.
Hooray! We made our connecting flights! No money lost = no trauma suffered. Did they try other ways of ascertaining whether the two were related before separating them, and were they trained on interrogating a child in isolation? Your friend's experience was another example of people with power over others who have become addicted to that power and crave the opportunity to use it. I don't know what makes you capable of judging how much an incident is "unjustified or traumatic" as experienced by somebody else, but try thinking about the child's trauma for a change. Then you won't be scratching your head in bewilderment when at age 17 they mow their classmates' heads off before taking their own life.
She wants money! Did she not go through worse when she was with the child's father? What if that was trafficking? That means because they didn't look alike the Trafficker would have got away with it? This is a sad state of affairs. Sne just struck gold. Allegedly!
This is why I haven't been on an airplane in 20+ years, as it just never seems worth the tons of headaches one must endure just to get from point A to B. I'm in Vegas, and if I can't find something to do here, then I'm not looking hard enough. My only family left I care to visit is in Los Angels, which is a short drive away, so until the airlines clean up their act, to hell with them.
I haven't flown in ages but this year I took two trips using air travel. Both times were HORRIBLE. Those trips gave me the travel bug and I'd like to see more cool places but I can't bear the thoughts of flying anywhere again.
@@daylehudson6810 Really? If someone had accused me of trafficking my own child, I would have reacted exactly the same way. In fact, she showed more restraint that I would have.
I'm so sorry she had to go through that. My heart breaks. They better start paying attention on what people are bringing on the plane instead of discriminating.this is terrible . Would not happen on a plane leaving Europe to wherever. Besides this would never happen on the East coast. This plane must have been leaving Ms.
Its a "catch 22" situation. If the flight attendant were to start quizzing or asking questions of this woman on the flight (e.g., asking both of their last names, questions trying to determine legitimacy of their relationship) the flight attendants would be accused of racial profiling, or invasion of privacy, racial stereotyping,etc.) The fact is there was something that caused the flight attendant to question the legitimacy of the mother/daughter relationship and she acted on it. If the flight attendant HAD actually prevented a child abduction by doing the exact same thing, everyone would be calling her a hero and praising her for doing her job and taking action.
Then what WAS the behavior, never asked for ID etc, then why lie? This job has catch 22 possibilities but this isn't one of them. Reasoning is plausible, actions were RACIST. You are wrong on this one.
Hey Poppy Harlow, you do not just spit the question "What do you want?" to the mother. It is NOT the mother's fault she and her daughter were racially targeted. Any airline worker could have just checked their passports and see their surnames instead of calling the police. What happened was WRONG! And it happens to a lot of biracial people. It should stop. That is what the world WANTS! Let this Karen mentality END!
People are always in such distress. What if no one checked and she was being trafficked? People like this are gonna make it hard for kids who need help.
Reading the comments regarding this mistake by the airlines causes me to think that there is very little hope to combat human trafficking. As hard as it may be for inter racial families, in this day and age, we all need to join together and find a way to educate ourselves. The shelter where I work has seen rescues that wouldn’t have been possible without concerned bystanders.
“We were concerned about the behavior.” Really? That’s what they went with?
This has happened to me 3 times in 5 years with my daughter. It’s always somebody who thinks they are going to be the hero by saving a little brown girl from a terrible white guy when in actuality they are being racist by racial profiling me as if it’s outside the realm of possibility that my wife is black and my children are mixed. I’d sue the airline to & I hope she wins!!
Me too , I hope she wins
😂😂😂
It's like a "What Would You Do" episode but in real life...
Me too. And I’d sue them for calling me a color rather than my race . We aren’t white, we are European. You wouldn’t call an asian yellow would you?
Yeah Ive seen this bit of cool white man backlash in this crazy, PC, stupid United states. If you want to get racial about it, white guys still ROCK!!!!
There’s no reason for them to even investigate her for child trafficking, unless they’re racial profiling. While they’re staring at her because her daughter is biracial an actual child trafficker could be sitting few rows back and they’d have no idea. They should be looking for strange behaviour by the adult or child.
How do you become a full grown adult and not know there are mixed race families?
Moreover, even if they weren't related, that doesn't automatically mean trafficking, there are _countless_ other, and statistically more likely explanations. They just jumped to conclusions and made assumptions out of thin air. I wonder if they had recently seen the new Jim Caviezel movie. 🤔 People said it could be fuel for more Pizzagate incidents. 🤦
People have stopped human trafficking cases by reporting minor suspicious behavior. I see absolutely nothing wrong with "racial profiling" in this case. It was a huge red flag.
@@johnc3525 So what you’re saying is, every mixed race family should have to talk to the police everywhere they go?
@@FalconAcerIf we're supposed to be on the lookout for human trafficking yes.
@@johnc3525 I thought America was a country for freedom. But I guess if you’re black or interracial. Less freedom for you.
Do you not realize that it is traumatizing especially to the children to see their parents being talked to with their custody at stake?
Nothing about the black airline employee who started this huh?
My nightmare. I’m white with a darker biracial child. I travel (even by car) with her birth certificate. In addition, she has high functioning autism. While most people see her as “normal,” I dread the day she has an autistic meltdown in public and someone thinks I’m kidnapping her.
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Bring medical records so no one harasses your autistic
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My first daughter is lighter and biracial. I hope I never have this problem
Your kid will be having the nightmares
Have a talk
About the fact she will be questioned for looking nothing like you and a different culture
Right for paying attention to any child of any race and wrong for throwing accusation without even asking for id. Completly unprofessional
This! Checking both their ID for last name would have solved this.
How many children have I.D.?
@@catherinenelson4162 All. For travelling purposes all need some sort of ID
Its a "catch 22" situation. If the flight attendant were to start quizzing or asking questions of this woman on the flight (e.g., asking both of their last names, questions trying to determine legitimacy of their relationship) the flight attendants would be accused of racial profiling, or invasion of privacy, racial stereotyping,etc.) The fact is there was something that caused the flight attendant to question the legitimacy of the mother/daughter relationship and she acted on it. If the flight attendant HAD actually prevented a child abduction by doing the exact same thing, everyone would be calling her a hero and praising her for doing her job and taking action.
@@TheButcherHicks that’s very true as well.
The airline should definitely have handled this differently. I know they are trying to do the right thing but this is definitely not the way to go about it.
They should have happened biracial families happen
Money making ploy.
@@Martell-XOgo play in your sandbox racist punk
Two sides to every story !
Knaw! That gold digger is breeding kids to use as pawns in a scheme to collect big paychecks from multi-million dollar corporations. Litigation is big, profitable, iniquitous business in the good ole' USA>
1:14 The flight attendant was "concerned about the behavior" of these two when they boarded the aircraft? What suspicious behavior did they exhibit, other than being together??
I'm black, my wife is Asian, we've two children. I experience this once or twice per month. They're not trying to do the right thing because even when you show proof, they refuse to even look at it. They're just trying to have two minutes of glory, trying to prove they're a good person, by being racist.
When your proud of your own race
Than you can complain about being racist
I think people are confused by what "racism" actually means.
@@thurston4mor Hello? what the heck?
@@thurston4morWhat the hell are you talking about?
Should of married a black woman. U going through racist shit anyway. I been married 21 years to a black woman. Beautiful kids who look like my family no stranger blood . And all the racist people. Our racist. I teach them not to make your mistake. Stay with your own.
At first I was thinking this woman was being a Karen, but after hearing the part where the tsa? was claiming she was lying about her reason for travel, I hope she gets a healthy settlement, for the harassment.
She is a Karen. what harm was done to her other than her ego?
@@johnc3525 time wasted going after real perps, instead they probably were exercising some kind of bias and harassing an innocent person, because they could.
@@johnc3525 She was discriminated against and her child was traumatised. The airline crew didn't even bother to check her paperwork and called the cops on her based on assumptions. Then they lied to her face when they realised they messed up. Good for her that she's taking them to court and calling them out---hopefully it will stop them from racially profiling and harassing people simply because they can.
@@johnc3525 Additional stress and trauma while grieving. Being late and potentially missing another flight while traveling for her brother's funeral. How callous and morally superior are you? Ugly ugly comments you are making which show just how out of touch you are. And don't cry about the child potentially being trafficked...you realise that white traffickers could travel with white children as well and more likely. Traffickers are not idiots...they are horrific and pretty inhuman but they know how to get around things. Asking for better trafficking training is something you should be rejoicing not degrading since you don't want things to change. She is asking for better training. She is open to TSA questioning. The airline could also question her when booking. Hell, the damn flight attendant could have used their brain and looked at the flight manifest and seen they have the same last name. If anyone is the Karen here, it is you.
@@mravina1614She said the child was traumatized before. No normal child becomes hysterical because a cop is talking to their mother.
Sorry, but yeah, non-matching parent/child is a red flag for child trafficking. It's the kind of thing people need to be paying attention to. The airline called the cops so they would check her paperwork.
What did they lie about?
Clearly, you and all the woke people care more about your feelings and ego than the safety of children.
If she wins, child traffickers will also win. I guess it shows what side you're on.
This is completely unacceptable. "What do you want?" is not the right question in this situation. Accountability & mandatory training at the very least need to happen.
I Agree the interviewer is awfully inappropriate. Her biased shows.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought Poppy sounded bad. 🤦
@@Myas-Loyal-Fan Are you for real? You know how many people have children who don't look like them? Not to mention, they do look alike when it comes to the estructure of their faces. But you're probably focusing on eye color, lips, nose, and hair texture. That airline doesn't need extra human trafficking training, what they need is anti-Karen hiring training.
What's the training here? Ignore red flags? Society has to opt, either we are politically correct and mind our business and let potential child trafficking happen, or we keep an eye for red flags and risk false positives. Sorry, but non-matching ethnicity is an obvious red flag.
This woman should have mandatory training to be less sensitive and be like "oh, sure, here's my documentation, thanks for checking that people are safe".
Poppy Harlow’s asking that with such a snarl gave me new insight into her character.
I’m a very old biracial family and I know how people look at you differently. Thanks for standing up and like I say there are many more people like me these days.
Hmmm, I'm from a mixed family as well. Weird stuff does happen! Sigh.
LOOK OUT EVERYONE!!! POD PEOPLE!!!
ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
This woman is a karen times 100.
What about the children. That are being trafficked?
It’s ridiculous to travel with your child’s documents just to prove to some idiots
Going to a funeral of a family member was bad enough but to go through this is totally unacceptable.
They couldn't get on the aircraft unless they *ALREADY* had all the right documents. The checking process to obtain the passports is VERY rigorous and is much more thorough and in depth than a single airline employee can do with a brief look at someone's face.
True. But, they wouldn't necessarily be carrying their passports on a domestic flight, which this was.
I think the airline could have definitely handled this in a more discreet and professional way.
Human trafficking is proliferating
And it’s being cracked down
My suggestion right know
Don’t travel with kids that look different culture
Bc you’re going to get stopped
Millions are being trafficked
Every scared to say ‘ that’s not your kid’?
@@thurston4mor If the name on the ticket matches the name on the passport; if the face in the passport matches the actual face, that will make problems less likely.
Same thing happened to me on a family vacation to Dominican Republic…… my son and I were pulled out of line and I had to prove he was my son….. he’s disabled, in a wheelchair. I don’t know why I brought all of our birth certificates with us but I’m glad I did.
As someone who is disabled and wheelchair bound, I find that revolting, but not surprising. I'm so sorry this happened to you both.
She handled that situation very well. Lucky girl to have such a sure, level headed mom, even while grieving.
How traumatized that little girl must’ve been. I feel their pain, I’m very light skinned and have a biracial daughter with curly dark hair.
Sounds like this woman was looking for an easy payday.
The girl was crying when confronted by the two officers.
That kid must have been scared. I wonder how often this happens
@@kelperdudeI guess it hasn’t happened to your family. Try putting yourself in someone else’s shoes
@@ecurewitz - She's looking for an easy payday.
If everyone knew what it felt like to be discriminated, the world would be a better place.
There was a teacher who tried to teach her students about that. She divided the class up into brown eyes and blue eyes ( I assume they were all white) and then told one group that they were better than the other and deserved better treatment. The kids saw the stupidity of this logic because it was not something they had control over. I am giving a very superficial run down... I wish I could remember more.
Jane Elliot.. im glad she did it because yes always get privileged and a pat on the back while blacks get killed and jailed for this mess... I kind of dint have sympathy because everyone is making excuses for her well being and the chid but if she were black these comments will be different@@macforme
@@macforme Jane Elliott. The kids who were made to feel less than was traumatized and their school work suffered because they felt they were inferior and wasn't smart. Some of those kids were A students. She taught them how Black people are treated because of skin color. I would like to know how the kids turned out as adults knowing it didn't feel good when the shoe was on the other foot. Yes, they were all white children. She did the experiment by eye color and hair color.
I grew up in a foster home here in Canada. My foster parents are Indonesian born and I’m a white Canadian born female. Here we were told we looked alike even though we’re a different race completely, no one ever questioned that I belonged with them. It makes me really sad that people are treated this way in America.
Maybe you should learn about child trafficking. That's why idiots are so amazed by Sound of freedom because they only heard about it now. In many parts of the world there are posters asking for people to report activity that may indicated human trafficking, airports particularly. The airline did their job. Stop being so sensitive and ignorant.
It's not just in America, it happens everywhere. Even in Canada! Racism isn't just a sickness here, there was a story a couple of months ago, not about a child per se, the mother had gotten up from her seat to do something with her child. She came back and a women was in her seat! She refused to move. They kicked the mother off the plane instead of the person that won't move to her assigned seat. The mother was a black women, the other white. It happens more often then we realize.
I’m Canadian as well and can not imagine this happening in any airport in this country.
Be on guard, yes, but this is just so outrageous.
I love America, but it’s just becoming one big vortex of anxiety, anger, fear, rage and irrational behavior.
Cute pic🫶🏼
@@canoegirl6335 You are absolutely correct. If one lives in a neighborhood that is relatively safe and crime-free, that person often becomes paranoid when going into unknown areas for fear of exactly what you listed, as well as the possibility of some negative encounter with the police.
Sue, sue...get the airlines for you and your child. As well as all other biracial families.
Happens to me all the time. They never believe a black lady can have an Asian son. I am Blasian so yeah he looks very Asian. And yes it usually happens at airports.
It is biologically impossible, so yea, a red flag for child trafficking indeed.
It's not biological impossible that her kid looks Asian. A lot of half Asian kids look more Asian then black. I'm Asian and my wife is black, our kid looks like me but with a slight tan. Most people mistake him for south east Asian (Filipino)
It's possible... @@johnc3525
@@johnc3525blasian people are biologically impossible? 😂
@@johnc3525 Silence. Stille, Bauer.
I'm not belittling what happened to her, but this happens to black men with their biracial children every day. The singer Halsey said for the longest time she had a mistrust of white women because they called the police on her father when they were at the mall, or just out in public.
They should sue too.
@@LubeGehrig👈😎...derp
@@LubeGehrig Oh, I see... english is your second-language. If you read the comment again, black men have the police called on them because they have biracial children that look white. And racist will not believe that a black man has a son or daughter that has blonde hair and blue eyes.
I hope I used enough small words to make it easy for you this time. I cannot dumb it down any more than that.
And it's wrong
@itsmecasper1978
Maybe read more carefully…?
The claim was, that men WHO ARE BIRACIAL FATHERS experience this kind of stuff a lot more!
And OF COURSE THEY DO!
Being a single man interacting with kids raises suspicious eye brows, so being a single dad is tough enough.
Now imagine being a BLACK single man interacting with (what people percieves as) a white child, so people don‘t even give the benefit of the doubt that it could be your kid…
Of course single black men with biracial parents receive A LOT of unwarranted suspicion.
If human trafficking is such an issue they should be checking every child and parent duo. If I was scum enough to do something like this I sure as hell wouldn't pair two visually different looking people with each other. 🤔🤨
Wow finally someone with common sense
IKR? That's what I said, that it's ridiculous to jump to conclusions only because they look different because it means they'd be letting all the actual cases slide just because they pass. 🤦 Also, they ignored all the other possible explanations and jumped straight to a statistically unlikely one. This smacks of a less harmful Pizzagate incident, just like what people warned the new Jim Caviezel movie could trigger. 😒
Very true! I believe it's bigotry in most cases when it's a white father or mother with a darker skin complexion. For those of us that are 40 and older, Eartha Kitt had the same problem with her daughter, because of her daughter being lighter then her. However Miss. Kitt didn't just have that happen on planes, but everywhere she went. People need to think before speaking. Ask questions, like... she is beatiful, how old is she, have you two traveled before. Does she get sick, or is she a pro at this? And you do it with a smile, not accusation! Not all families look alike, so be kind!
@@michellec5407 When did this happen to Ms. Kitt? She was world-renowned. Most people knew more about her business than she cared for them to know. Whenever she entered a plane, they knew who she was. Even if they didn't, it was easy to imagine her being a suntanned woman with her daughter. Airlines must get a better policy than.this unless they want to go bankrupt. This us a case of racial profiling in the worst way.
They fit the bill
A crazy looking whyte mom
And a little black girl
There’s questions
I have biracial children too. And one time I was walking with my mother-in-law who is black and has since passed. But at the time an ignorant Walmart employee asked her if she was her grandchild's nanny.
I wonder what behavior they are referring to that she said the attendants were concerned about in the video. 🤔
My heart breaks for her daughter as I heard her crying in the video. She must have been terrified about possibly being taken away from her Mom.
Traveling while black. That behavior. The flight attendant who lied on video needs to be sued as well. The only way for this airline to learn and produce updated training and make their employees accountable. Is to have some of those quarterly earning taken away by way of a law suit.
@@TKO67Right
@@TKO67 In this case it wasn't traveling while black because they accused the white mother. Passports are supposed to be hard to fake so as long as the passport was presented it doesn't seem fair to question her. Also 38% of human trafficking done through flights is pretty high so its a tradeoff to ensure people are not trafficking. They just need to work on a more respectable approach.
My son is biracial and we fly occasionally. We never had this experience, but we were asked some questions by the TSA, and we get a lot of looks. What happened to this woman and her daughter is terrible and I hope Southwest does the right thing.
It will Nike. Lawsuit for that to happen
NOOOO, I hope they pay through the nose for stepping in and inconveniencing a customer that had wasn't doing anything wrong. As an agent I'd look for actions from the girl, is she comfortable or stressed? does she look like this is being forced on her? What was their motive for calling the police? Obviously they missed their flight, what compensation did they offer? None I bet
No, if we want people to report suspicious activity to authorities, I'm sorry, but you will have to grow up and understand that your situation does raise suspicions and that there's nothing wrong with making sure kids are safe.
*Using race as the basis of every lawsuit is utter wickedness. Frequent frivolous litigation in the USA is a disgusting affair in pursuit of riches. That crap does not fly easily in the REST OF THE WORLD.*
Sadly, it's been two years, and Southwest still hasn't done the right thing.
I have two mixed grandkids. No matter where we go, people stare. Yes we are in the south.
My sister-in-law is white and married to a black man. Their girls all married dark skin black men. My sister-in-law and husband have started having grand children and both are dark skinned Black boys. Honestly, it does look a little strange when I see pictures on Facebook of my sister-in-law’s parents with their dark chocolate great grand sons with braids. lol They love them a lot though and that’s what matters most.❤
Biracial is common in the south,I bet it’s your counterparts doing the staring
Commonly look upon, by some as stare worthy.@@iseerightthrucapandbullcra1134
No one forced you to mix
Creature, I wrote my grandkids! But nothing like the hate of a Christian. You see we are ALL ONE RACE…HUMAN RACE. I am in the red Christian south. In fact, I am in Orange Moses’ district , the worst of the second worst state of our Union. So, I am used to bigoted, aggressive behavior from the Christian clan. I will pray for you!
In the USA, half of the households are missing a father, man, husband…..and our planet is in serious peril…in the hands of bigoted men.
You are now on a huge prayers list. And, when you die, you will go to heaven, for Jesus died so you could. BUT, she is a black lady!
Blessings in this new year, only the strong will survive!
@@Leviathan762-zh4lq
Oh Poppy, I was not impressed with your opening inquiring as to why the mother is suing SW. "Why did you file suit....WHAT DO YOU WANT.....What's the ultimate goal, here." Please Poppy, show more compassion, rather than ask questions that point to an ulterior motive of this mother.
Agree. This was a no brainer as to why the law suit was filed. It was a racial discrimination case plain and simple. She did not need to be interrogated by the TV interviewer on that point. Really it was just about the mother telling her story. The interviewer could have handled that part better by simply saying this is a racial discrimination case and then get no to the story about the experience the mother and child had. The focus should have been on the poor judgement of the flight attendant, inadequate training etc... People are ID vetted before they get on a plane, so the first point of call would have been to discretely check the vetting records if there was any doubt at all. No need for this traumatic experience to have occurred and then be blatantly lied about by the airline staff. Totally unacceptable. It was poor judgement by the airline staff member and they have to admit that and own up to their error in judgement and handling of the situation.
You have to got be kidding. So you think the interviewer's job is to make assumptions and not interview the person? 🤣
Totally agree. It was distasteful, nasty and disgusting.
I might add that it was clearly outlined as a racial discrimination case at the start of the video, so the interrogation part seems rather superfluous.
Honest mistake or not, it waws poor judgement either way and poorly handled. Also to accuse a customer of lying without any subtantive evidence is atrocious behaviour from the flight attendant.
Oh, been there...mine was at Toronto Pearson in 2017...all other passengers passing you and giving you a second take while my son panicked!! So distressing!!! Glad someone has the guts to stand up to a large organization!!
i hope this woman loses thousands of dollars when she LOSES. Airlines should investigate EVERY REPORT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING. i would rather be stopped with my kids EVERY TIME than let someone get away with trafficking. an conversation cant be traumatizing. try experiencing something ACTUALLY Traumatizing, like being trafficked
I’m so glad this brave mom is speaking up about this because it happens all the time. This exact thing happened to my friend who has a biracial daughter with blue eyes and the mom’s black. The Airline took her aside and questioned why she has a white child when she is balck. This was 2005 and I can’t believe the same thing is still happening.
America Is A Racist Country, Pure, Plain, and Simple, Why Any One Of COLOR Would Want To Live Here Is Just Unimaginable!
half-goblin with blue eyes? that is so rare and unlikely that you are full of shite.
Glad the airline is being proactive. Funny how people are mad at hotels that do nothing about sex trafficking but are mad when airlines do their job.
@@johnc3525If the child is distressed, abnormally quiet, dissociating, etc. I could understand and the attendant should be able to use good sense and ask questions. The attendant didn't ask them anything, just assumed. SW airlines also lied on video about why this woman was traveling with her daughter (probably to save their own ass). I think you're deliberately being obtuse.
@@eg4417You need to learn more about child trafficking and how children are gullible. You truly can't imagine a child being told she's a friend of her mom's who's taking her to Disney or whatever? Or she could be truly a mom's friend who decided to kidnap the kid. I mean, you must be 13 or never read the news.
The attendant isn't the police, her job is to inform the authorities of suspicious behavior.
How in the world would SW know why she's traveling???
The child is blessed to have a wise level headed mom. Feel like it's so rare nowadays 😅
@@pabloloja524 Crossings are lower now than under the former moron-in-chief's term.
That’s a lie
Ironically funny what you said
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Yep her daughter is mortified. She said she clams up when spoken to about this. The daughter had to go through therapy... the mom is making the event an EVENT! if I don't want my kids to worry about something or be traumatized I play it cool at natural . This mom is traumatizing her daughter.
@@stacy6994
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Her mom is a psycho
I support the mom 100%, I also agree that the cops were just doing their jobs and don't blame them, but it should not be expected that the mom and daughter need to put up with being stopped and questioned by police just because they look different every time they travel. Her and her daughters rights don't end just because other people break the law and commit crimes.
I support SW 100%.
@@johnc3525
You support Southwest Airlines?
@@beringstraitrailwayWhy would I not support someone checking if a child is safe?
@@johnc3525 They don't get it, they just want to have their cake and eat it too...
@@johnstarks32It seems they simply don't care about children trafficking. If I were a parent in that situation I would be glad that someone's checking on children*. If my kid was kidnapped I would hope people would ask them for ID.
But these people's egos are way, way too inflated to think about others.
Also, she said herself that she's prepared for that situation cos she knows it's a red flag. So why be a Karen?
Edit: I mean, she found an opportunity to make easy money, that's why.
38% is a significant amount to be cautious on airports.
This is complicated. They need to handle it well, but at the same time I would hate for airlines to not want to help spot human trafficking.
bingo bango. i would still prefer for them to have an approach less implicative, professional in requesting some basic information, and not calling the police unless the situation escalates. but still i'm with you on that dichotomy.
@@robosing225 Yes, you have a point about calling the police. Ask some questions and the call if you get shady answers. It’s not like they can go anywhere, so you can call the police whenever.
My point exactly. People are outraged in retrospect. But I guarantee you that in the future, many, many people will just look away and mind their own business. Who in their right mind would want to be the object of public ridicule, law suits, being "doxed," or fired? Just for wanting to make sure that a child is safe--and finding out that "Yes, the child is safe and with her mother." There are biracial children in my family--through adoption. If I were taking them somewhere, and I were questioned by the police, I would cooperate, smile, and show that passports or whatever else I had as ID. Much worse would be that a child were taken, people were reluctant to butt in, and later it would be too late to remedy.
@@pixie_the_rabbit4190 I agree with everything you are saying. And it occurred to me as I was reading it that possibly the mother could have been the primary catalyst for the child’s reaction. I wonder if she told her that “everything is okay and that it’s a good thing that people are vigilant because if she were ever taken I would want that as your mom.” Or something along those lines. It seems like all this brouhaha isn’t weighted toward the better and instead toward a settlement or something. Plus who says it was even racially motivated? I’m not discounting racial profiling, and god knows it’s a real issue, but it isn’t always that.
I was a truck driver for many years and child trafficking agency now work with trucking companies to give a course on this same thing. What to look for to spot possible problems since many of these girls are put to work at truck stops. I would hate to think that reporting a possible problem could have resulted in a law suit.
Perhaps they should create a law similar to the Good Samaritan law where if you report a possible situation in good faith you can’t be sued.
Edit: That got rambling. Sorry 😅
What's "complicated" about it? We know what happened...racial profiling! Stop acting dumb!!
I had two kids who were blond and people often thought I was their nanny.
Genes are unique. Me and my brother look different to the point people have flat out said to my face if by chance my mom had an affair. It makes me self conscious about my appearance because I’m multiracial and I hate when people ask me my racial background and then look so surprise to then ask me why I look the way I do.
This is beyond reasonable. I don't understand what looked suspicious but have a real good clue and Southwest is about to write a check. I would also like to know how many other cases are floating around out there.... this can't be the only one.
You mean UNREASONABLE
They’ll write a check for sure, but I bet it’ll be settled and they’ll admit no wrong doing
There are probably more unreported cases.
Not to confident with Southwest's training.
I am so happy that there are ppl trying to actively stop/prevent child trafficking. However if that person is not trained to identify what/how a child may act if they are being held against their will then they need to take a step back and assess the situation. My heart breaks for this young girl because she is biracial she already has internal dialogue about not looking black enough or white enough and then a total stranger makes disgusting allegations against her mother based on the fact they don't look alike. I know what that does to a person's self image. I am glad the mom is sueing.
Sad part is they do look alike; it's just that their skin color is different.
@@TraceyJean I agree!! I personally think they look like mother and daughter same facial features and similar smiles. I hope they win their lawsuit
You could hear her daughter sobbing in distress in the background. If I were her mother, I'd be suing too!! Stupid Southwest employees!
@@TraceyJeanYes! I agree!! That is exactly what I said! They look alike, only the skin color is different.
Is it really such a great problem and is this only affected biracial travellers?
Why does the airline need to do that? they have their names on the ticket right?
Calling the police 🤦 I would think during boarding while showing boarding pass that identification is also shown ? That poor girl being traumatised and humiliated. Mom is going to her brother's funeral and now had to deal with this as well 😠
No lie, That is heavy. Did not even bother to ask for Id
I support her 100%. Sue them for everything
Listening to this for the first time, I can’t believe that her first question to this mother is “What do you want???” Well, I’m not surprised here. It just goes to show why this type of racial discrimination continues to happens in this country because some in her position don’t understand what that feels like, as she would never experience it. It doesn’t matter whether it might have been a mistake from one person, it takes more than one person mistakes for it to have gone that far and to get the police involved. Did anyone even stop to think?? This is beyond sad.
its because she's not blinded by sensationalism & understands that the staff were being cautious & better safe than sorry
It wasn't racial profiling. The daughter did not speak to her mother during the entire flight, and appeared to be upset. That is why concern for her was expressed by the airline to the Denver police. This mother should be glad that airlines are sensitive to possible trafficking . 38% of trafficked children are transported via commercial airlines.
This isnt good because there are actual people that do get trafficked. Just a few years ago an airline called the cops on a guy that was suspicious with a little girl . Turned out he was trafficking her and she was saved. This mom is an idiot . Mistakes happen and just because it happened once , she sues and will ruin any chances of future kids being saved .
Why didn't she just show ID?
That's disgusting.
No, it's not.
Profiling is so much a part of their experience that mom feels compelled to carry her child's birth certificate?!?!
If their is no dad around
Which in this instance dad is Mia.. lol
You should always being kids birth certificate and law documents proving travel
Immigration detained my African husband with our two-year mixed race daughter for many hours So this story definitely strikes a chord Good luck Mary !
The mom made it worse than it was. Sheesh.
I’m glad they are looking out for child trafficking.
I hate racism.
People assuming... it is insane that some people still think that the segregation of the past that leads to just one type of family that basically all look relatively the same is how everyone still lives.
Most of us do not live in the past we look forward and embrace the future where everyone is bi-racial and racism is eliminated.
The airline has all the information about them that they need to verify who she is and everything. The airline and authorities could have did the investigation in the background and not bothered them at all and come to a conclusion the authorities need. The itch to take a quick route by reporting parties and officials can affect lives unnecessarily and criminally by those officials.
No they do not! When you book a fight there is no personal information asked of you about the child other then name and age. Id is required for adults but children are not checked. The airline just assumes that its your child especially if they are young. People would loose their sheit if every time they air traveled with their kids they had to go to a process of verifying if the child you are traveling with is yours or not.
@@yvettemontalvo7991So you think you can get on a passenger Airplane and show no ID? I'm a retired information systems tech, your ill informed. Their systems are hooked into Customs and Homeland Security, no need to even ask the passengers a question or stop them. There photo footprints on the Internet is seconds away!
When you go through customs in Europe, domestic flight or not, if you have a minor with you, it's mandatory to show you have custody (if you're a single parent) or a signed document and copy of the passport of the other parent proving that you have permission to fly with your kid. This is all to prevent child trafficking or abduction. It should be normalised. Everyone should be checked. Takes away all room for speculation.
@@Luke-qy8id Im from the US and here things are different because people will whine about it (primadonas). I feel its a good thing that they want to make sure you are traveling with your child and not a pervert.
AMEN
As a black guy who has 3 biracial children I’m a bit torn by this. Yeah, I would be kinda angry and humiliated if this happened to me; however, it’s good they are looking out for the wellbeing of children so I can’t be too upset about it in the grand scheme of things.
Derp...👈😎
I agree. Sometimes it's better to be safe than sorry even if it might offend the people you think you're helping.
It wasn't the fact that they were checking on the child. That's fine.
It was about the process in how they "checked" on the child. Apparently they just assumed the child wasnt hers, instead of asking the proper questions to solve their confusion.
I agree that is good they are looking out for this, but this could have been avoided if they asked her for her ID and birth certificate, which she had. Also racial bias does a disservice to fighting human trafficking because there is no data that say that children that are trafficked have a different skin color than their traffickers.
Although it’s good that they look out for things like this, but it isn’t fair that interracial couple have to go through this. They should then ask for birth certificates of all minors who travel on airplanes to be submitted prior to travel.
Thing is, why doesn't the airline know she has already gone through TSA and identities were confirmed?
Due diligence is one thing, but the attendants lying about why the mother was or wasn't traveling with a biracial child while its on bodycam recordings and risking harm to the mother and daughter is definitely NOT ok. If those attendants did not voice it as opinion, but stated it as fact then the police could have reacted out of proportion to in regards to the reality.
Due diligence* - What happened to the interactive process in asking questions and investigating before calling the police? I'm glad the Mother spoke up and is bringing awareness that further training is necessary.
And it’s sad this still happens they’re so many biracial children this day and age 😥
There's nothing sad about making sure children aren't being trafficked.
@@johnc3525 I never said anything was wrong 🤡
Right on Mommy! In solidarity! Peace, Divine Protection and Blessings to you and your daughter!
Why is father not speaking out too?
Fam u know why -_-
He went to buy pack of ciggs 15 years ago
Haha. Mother a single Mom. Worked for CNN before. Never married the father.
@@studid55We don't.
He wuz a kang. Went off to build some pyramids n sheeeeit.
She should get every penny.
Sad world we live in
Where human trafficking happens, yeah. Glad the airline was proactive.
This mother is a hero in my book. As a single mother myself with children with different last names, as well as a divorce lawyer who has represented African American parents with biracial children, this is a huge problem, not just of profiling on flights, but in grocery stores and other public places. Racial profiling cannot be tolerated.
The thing is the arrogance when you yourself know it’s your kid. It becomes an indictment on your character. As a parent you’d be floored if you heard peoples suspicions. I’m more than glad to just go about my business. Even worse as a single dad with a bi racial daughter.
They profiled the mother not the daughter. The mother is teaching her daughter to have a victim mentality when the airline were just trying to do the right thing
How would a flight attendant have the gall to tell anyone that they are lying about going to a funeral??? That's a lot of stupid nerve! This whole thing is beyond disturbing! Those flight attendants should have been FIRED!
Imagine looking for a payout and all because people cared about a black kid. Damned if you do damned if you don't.
Wooowwww my hats off to this woman for kicking back!
In many countries, a notarized document is required when a parent travels alone with a child. (to avoid all custody issues)
This is so scary! I am the mother of 3 children…2 have my coloring and one is much darker and takes after his part Chinese, part white father. I also have a friend who has a son that doesn’t look like her because she is white and her son’s father is black. This happens all too often. America is very diverse and there are many, many mixed race families. Trafficking does need to be addressed, but racial profiling is not the answer.
im a little confused. dark Chinese? they tend to be fair skin
WHY NOT JUST ASK THE MOM. DID THE CHILD LOOK DISTRESED? RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL
It seems very odd that a staff member couldn't have a friendly conversation with the mother and child, and figure out that trafficking was unlikely. I agree, there may be instances where a child seems upset or drugged, when more questions may be necessary, but this is nuts.
Moral panic is the key word here.
I want to know EXACTLY what she “did” that caused the flight attendant to think this and EXACTLY what evolved over the course of the flight and why this was even a thing. I am all for keeping kids safe, but was there any legitimate cause for concern?
And for what it’s worth if I was going to traffic a child, or anyone for that matter, I would absolutely not want to bring the person into an area where I’m on hundreds of cameras and pass by lots of law enforcement…..that has got to be the dumbest way to actually traffic someone.
Its because she's white with a black child
They're both so beautiful. The Mom look just like the woman who plays "Kats Mom" in the movie Casper. On another note she is absolutely correct. Hearing her daughter cry you can tell she is traumatized. Her mom is doing right. I love how she is showing her daughter FIRST of all people that she will take a stand for her no matter what and she'll fight for her no matter the consequences.
"Screening for child trafficking" is the new dog whistle for racial profiling. I fly often and it's not difficult to see the interaction between a parent and child regardless of skin color. I don';t know why we are empowering clueless flight attendants to be the judge in this. We are doing a lot of harm in the name of "good".
Im mulatto (white mom, black dad) and my cousin is too. We were in walmart with our moms when we were about 7? And we got lost and a walmart employee found us and took us to customer service and made an announcement that they found two kids. Our moms came up to claim us and the employees refused to release us to our moms even though we eere crying "mommy mommy" and reaching for our moms. They asked us repeatedly if this was our mom and we said yes. This was way before the himan trafficing phase. And the employees were white. I dont know their motives but I assume that they looked at us with our afros and our stereotypical white moms and just couldnt believe these white women would stoop so low to have mixed kids and must instead be stooping so low as to steal someone's children.
Good job mom. It has happened to me multiple times. I am Caribbean with dark skin and my daughter is multiracial her skin is white because she is mixed with Chinese and Spanish. Although i may sympathize for this mother but welcome to what happens to us Black mothers and fathers daily.
How do you think we feel? You will fight the battle for the rest your lives. Sorry your baby has to go through this. Let her know she better get ready because racism is very real in the United States. Her identity will be a huge struggle for her. Please have conversations with her and be transparent. It’s harder for them than it is for us.
Caribbean isn’t a race. Did you mean African?
Mothers of any color can’t complain compared to us men. We can’t even go to a park without being eyed suspiciously
@@busterofcoviddeniers Considering that there is no biological basis for "race" as it's purely a social construct, a person can absolutely be Caribbean in terms of ethnicity and/or nationality. I'm half Pakistani and when asked about my ethnicity, I identify either as such or as half South Asian even though my nationality is American.
@@ara2597 you just mashed concepts together without any thought. Ethnicity is not race. As I said, Caribbean is not a race 🤦♂️
@@busterofcoviddeniers Based on the full original comment, I stand by my response. It is not incorrect of someone to identify based on their ethnicity.
It's probably best for flight attendants to stick to flight safety, passenger comfort and food and beverage service.
Totally warranted reaction to assumptions based solely by looking different. It's very hurtful to those signaled for no reason and it's definitely a bully attitude from the airline employees, no less
she deserves every single dime.
Better safe than sorry. No one was harmed. Good for the airl;ine for being proactive. Is it better to do nothing and perhaps allow trafficking to go unnoticed?
Did you not hear the child crying? I think she was caused some harm. The airline employees went about this the wrong way. Proper, inclusive comprehensive training re trafficking is required. People need to check their biases. This woman should NOT have to carry around all this documentation for her own child.
I could have sued a lot of times if that’s the case! I have way worse stories than this! 😂
But yeah, if their only “evidence” was the color of the skin, then this is ridiculous. But again, as a black man, I have more than one story where people acted OUTRAGEOUSLY due to nothing more than the color of my skin.
Countless probably..
If some asked my child and I were involved in child trafficking I would thank them.
The thing is. They didnt even approach the two first..they silently called the cops in the background and then they were approached by cops. The airline rep didn't have the stones to approach and ask.
@@2332Stephen see something say something.
Bravo for her courage. We don’t have enough of that.
I’m sorry for this woman, but I absolutely would rather the airline employees make a mistake than not call & a child not get saved. I think she’s either looking to get a bunch of money, prove a point, or get revenge because her feelings are hurt. She’s going to end up hurting trafficked children. I say this as someone who got told in school that I had to be adopted & my parents lied about it because some people didn’t believe it was possible for a brown-skinned woman to have a fair-skinned, white kid. I didn’t like it, I found it annoying, etc., but it wasn’t racism & it wasn’t something to go into battle over.
So only mixed race passengers are suspicious?
This is so hard to think about. So many black girls are trafficked because no one pays attention to them. At the same time this can happen if someone is over vigilant. How do we balance this?
As a mother of a biracial child, I can respect this was difficult and embarrassing, and I understand addressing with the airline corporate/FAA, but by making this a federal case, all it will do is discourage travel employees from reporting what they see. And that’s not what we need.
Thank you! My point exactly! There are biracial kids in my family. I would never, ever care that someone was concerned enough about the kids to check! Like I said, from now on, many people will just look away and mind their own business. No one in their right mind will take the chance that they will be publicly shamed, rebuked, labeled racist... Very, very sad. Just when we have all been made aware and have been told to be alert...we figure out that if it doesn't concern us, don't take a chance of being wrong!
I disagree. Making it a federal case will force others to learn how to properly do their jobs.
@@pixie_the_rabbit4190 I disagree. Making this a federal case will force others to evaluate and do their jobs properly.
or, maybe be trained in the art of critical thinking?...sorely lacking in this country! or just properly assess the situation...look for signs of stress! discreetly!
Do you not understand this flight attendant lied, NEVER asked for identification???? Not understanding your statement at all.
How long were they detained? That would be an important factor in how unjustified and traumatic the incident may have been. Also, whether they were separated during questioning
I was traveling back from a ski vacation in Canada to the US with a male friend of ours and his daughter. The mom doesn't ski. The man and his daughter were briefly detained, in separate rooms, while they were questioned about whether she was really his daughter. It did not take long, no more than 10 minutes or so. The man was glad that someone would have been looking out for his daughter had she actually been kidnapped.
All of us made our connecting flight back home.
Hooray! We made our connecting flights! No money lost = no trauma suffered. Did they try other ways of ascertaining whether the two were related before separating them, and were they trained on interrogating a child in isolation? Your friend's experience was another example of people with power over others who have become addicted to that power and crave the opportunity to use it. I don't know what makes you capable of judging how much an incident is "unjustified or traumatic" as experienced by somebody else, but try thinking about the child's trauma for a change. Then you won't be scratching your head in bewilderment when at age 17 they mow their classmates' heads off before taking their own life.
@@petep.2092 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Damned if you do damned if you don’t
She wants money! Did she not go through worse when she was with the child's father? What if that was trafficking? That means because they didn't look alike the Trafficker would have got away with it? This is a sad state of affairs. Sne just struck gold. Allegedly!
If the Father was there, this wouldn't of Happened???🤔
Thank you for speaking out! I had the same problem with my son when we flew before!
My was having the same issue with her son in Minnesota when he was a baby when they were in the grocery shopping.
This is why I haven't been on an airplane in 20+ years, as it just never seems worth the tons of headaches one must endure just to get from point A to B. I'm in Vegas, and if I can't find something to do here, then I'm not looking hard enough. My only family left I care to visit is in Los Angels, which is a short drive away, so until the airlines clean up their act, to hell with them.
I haven't flown in ages but this year I took two trips using air travel. Both times were HORRIBLE.
Those trips gave me the travel bug and I'd like to see more cool places but I can't bear the thoughts of flying anywhere again.
lolz you are blaming this situation for the reason you havent air traveled in over 20 yrs?
@@yvettemontalvo7991 "never seems worth the tons of headaches one must endure just to get from point A to B." - chrislaustin
I don't think I will fly Southwest ever again. This woman was so brave and absolutely did the right thing.
What a terrible incident..
I stopped flying South West after the first time when I found out they had no assigned seats. What the FUCK kind of cattle ranch bullshit is that??
If the mother had stayed calm through the process the child would not have gotton upset.
@@daylehudson6810 Really? If someone had accused me of trafficking my own child, I would have reacted exactly the same way. In fact, she showed more restraint that I would have.
They definitely racially profiled her. I'm glad she retained a lawyer and I hope she wins her lawsuit.
IN THE USA THEY SUE FOR EVERY SINGLE F THING....
I'm so sorry she had to go through that. My heart breaks. They better start paying attention on what people are bringing on the plane instead of discriminating.this is terrible . Would not happen on a plane leaving Europe to wherever. Besides this would never happen on the East coast. This plane must have been leaving Ms.
Its a "catch 22" situation. If the flight attendant were to start quizzing or asking questions of this woman on the flight (e.g., asking both of their last names, questions trying to determine legitimacy of their relationship) the flight attendants would be accused of racial profiling, or invasion of privacy, racial stereotyping,etc.) The fact is there was something that caused the flight attendant to question the legitimacy of the mother/daughter relationship and she acted on it. If the flight attendant HAD actually prevented a child abduction by doing the exact same thing, everyone would be calling her a hero and praising her for doing her job and taking action.
Then what WAS the behavior, never asked for ID etc, then why lie? This job has catch 22 possibilities but this isn't one of them. Reasoning is plausible, actions were RACIST. You are wrong on this one.
@@violaskid So far you are the only one to disagree.
Stewardess been watching “sounds of freedom” too much
yep she did ...she time traveled to the present and watched that movie...then went back in time to 2021 and called the police. lol
@@habsfan5741😂
Hey Poppy Harlow, you do not just spit the question "What do you want?" to the mother. It is NOT the mother's fault she and her daughter were racially targeted. Any airline worker could have just checked their passports and see their surnames instead of calling the police. What happened was WRONG! And it happens to a lot of biracial people. It should stop. That is what the world WANTS! Let this Karen mentality END!
People were just looking out for the kiddo, seems like an easy fix, just explain the relationship.
You wouldn't say that if she were dark skinned.
People are always in such distress. What if no one checked and she was being trafficked? People like this are gonna make it hard for kids who need help.
Reading the comments regarding this mistake by the airlines causes me to think that there is very little hope to combat human trafficking. As hard as it may be for inter racial families, in this day and age, we all need to join together and find a way to educate ourselves. The shelter where I work has seen rescues that wouldn’t have been possible without concerned bystanders.
This was more than a mistake this was flat out terrible training