A California woman is accusing Southwest Airlines of racial profiling, saying she was accused of human trafficking while traveling with her biracial daughter.
Mary MacCarthy of Los Angeles told CNN she and her 10-year-old daughter, Moira, were flying to Denver on October 22 after receiving news that MacCarthy's brother had suddenly died.MacCarthy said they had a brief stop in San Jose and boarded another Southwest flight but realized then that they couldn't be seated together."I asked flight attendants if we could be seated together but they told us we'd each have to take a middle seat," MacCarthy said.
"The report also noted that officers were responding to a"possible Human Trafficking reported by South West flight attendant" -- but MacCarthy says she only found out two weeks later that she was suspected of human trafficking."I got a call from Denver Police human trafficking unit letting me know they were following up on the incident," she told CNN.