A mother has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Southwest Airlines after an employee raised concerns about her potentially trafficking her biracial daughter during a flight from the Bay Area to Denver. The mother, Mary MacCarthy, who is White, claims that the employee made this assumption without any prior conversations with her or her daughter.
Mary MacCarthy, who is White, alleges that a Southwest employee reported that she could potentially be trafficking her daughter, who was 10 years old at the time. MacCarthy alleges that the employee made the assumption without having any conversations with her or her daughter.
When MacCarthy and her daughter got off the plane, the lawsuit states that they were met by two officers with the Denver Police Department. One of the officers reportedly told MacCarthy that a Southwest employee had reported her as a potential human trafficker.MacCarthy said she was separated from her daughter, who was crying, fearing they were in trouble for some reason.
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