Posted on 11/07/2021 7:04:24 AM PST by real saxophonist
White mom accused of trafficking biracial daughter: ‘Stop and think before you call the police’
by: Erika Gonzalez
Nov 5, 2021
DENVER (KDVR) — A mom was accused of human trafficking while on a flight with her daughter to Denver. She shared her story in hopes it changes how quickly someone raises suspicions with police.
On Oct. 22, Mary MacCarthy and her 10-year-old daughter, Moira, took an uneventful Southwest Airlines flight to Denver. So she was caught off guard when she was greeted by police once they stepped off the plane.
The mother and daughter were approached by officers for suspicious behavior reported by a Southwest employee.
“I took out my phone and started recording,” MacCarthy said.
MacCarthy said she told police they flew to Denver to arrange and attend the funeral for her brother, who had suddenly passed.
“He’s like a father to her … I’m a single mother,” MacCarthy said.
According to MacCarthy, police and airline officails never said she was suspected of human trafficking. Minutes later, they would allow the mom and daughter to be on their way.
But days later, MacCarthy got a call from an invesitgator with the Denver Police Department’s human trafficking unit and learned details about Southwest’s and DPD’s versions of the story.
She said both of the reports were full of untruths.
MacCarthy said Southwest lied when they claimed she didn’t allow Moira to speak with flight attendants. She also claims DPD lied when they reported MacCarthy didn’t want to share any information.
“But I have a three-minute video in which I pretty much tell them my life story,” she said.
MacCarthy said she appreciates the effort to follow up on human trafficking suspicions but said racial profiling in this case led her black daughter to deal with unnecessary trauma.
“I would tell anyone: stop and think before you call the police. Go and have a conversation with the person. If they had done that, they would have seen how nice and friendly we are,” she said.
Southwest released the following statement:
We were disheartened to learn of this mother’s account when traveling with her daughter. We are conducting a review of the situation internally, and we will be reaching out to the Customer to address her concerns and offer our apologies for her experience traveling with us. Our Employees undergo robust training on Human Trafficking. Above all, Southwest Airlines prides itself on providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for the millions of Customers who travel with us each year.
SOUTHWEST AIRLINES
The Denver Police Department also released this statement:
Procedurally, officers assigned to the airport responded to the gate based on a report from airline personnel, and the responding officers documented the information provided by airline personnel and Ms. MacCarthy during the contact in a ‘Letter to Detective’ — a process for documenting information for an incident that doesn’t appear to rise to the level of a crime. The Letter to Detective was forwarded to a human trafficking detective for follow up based on the nature of the original report by airline personnel, the detective later called Ms. MacCarthy and the Letter to Detective was subsequently closed as ‘unfounded.’
DENVER POLICE DEPARTMENT
Given the amount of creeps and pedophiles out there, I would insist on sitting next to my 10 year old child, too.
Who knows how frantic it was before the flight? Maybe they wanted some peace and quiet. Also, those stupid masks don’t make carrying on a conversation easy.
My husband and I just flew SW this week to bury his mother. We barely said a word to each other on the plane. He was upset and deep in thought. I let him be. The flight crew were polite and professional both times.
Can definitely see both sides.
This story has been floating around for days. It’s not an unusual story. Many parents with kids of “another race” (whatever other people might think they see) are stopped and questioned.
But, in another article, she said something I can’t agree with. I can’t find that quote now, but I’ll keep looking.
Any investigative process will produce false positives and false negatives. If false positives create a lot of issues, then that will result in lots of real situations being passed up.
Yes my red haired white grandson gets “looks” all the the time when he is with his half black son and daughter, if his wife isn’t with them. They are used to it.
Wait a minute, why would you talk to the police? I think the TSA may be able to ask where I am going but no other officer may really ask that.
God love them but their job is to detect crime. Why would you help them in that if YOU are the suspect?
I saw an attorney years ago speaking to a large group of officers and criminal defense attorneys. He asked all the attorneys, by a show of hands, has anyone ever said, “I only my client had said more to the officer?” They all laughed. He then asked the officers, has any one ever thought, “If only this suspect would just shut up?” And they all laughed.
There is absolutely nothing you can say to an officer that will get you out of trouble. Anything you say can and WILL be used against you. What they do not tell you is anything you say that exonerates you MAY NOT be used in court. For some odd reason the here say rule prevents statements that exonerate you but allows those that convict you.
Blackstone’s old sentiment regarding the presumption of innocence comes to m
mind…
“Better That 10 Guilty Men Go Free Than To Convict A Single Innocent Man”
Southwest employees are watching you carefully acting as junior assistant FBI agents. I don’t blame the mom for getting pissed off. They are sucking at their real job but feeling really empowered in their tyrannical powers since Covid world.
“Excuse me ma’am, can you please explain to us why you are a salt and pepper team, and why you don’t let your daughter talk to strangers through her mask?”
Unreal
The first time I flew after 9/11 there was a twenty-something Southwest Airlines c**t who randomly targeted me for “special treatment.”
That was also the last time I flew after 9/11.
No doubt they abuse their power, but just quit subsidizing them by purchasing their product.
Airports were the proof-of-concept for the totalitarian society they are now imposing on us.
We should have defunded the airlines twenty years ago, but we didn’t, and now here we are.
Oh my god well that explains it. The last people to board! And the mom insisted she and her young daughter not sit apart so some creeper can bother her? And they didn’t talk much?
Well call 911! Sheesh
"I've been a mother to a biracial child for 10 years, I'm aware of racial profiling. . . . . she's a Black girl who's 10 but looks much older than she is. She unfortunately already has had charged encounters with police. Source
That quote made me wonder about the mother's viewpoint - what does she consider a "charged encounter"? What is she talking about?
Also, does she understand that she was the one "racially profiled"? Everyone was concerned about the welfare of her daughter. They were suspicious of her, the mother.
Exactly.
Someone of a certain hue saw a white person traveling with a “black” girl and jumped to a conclusion.🤔
People who think this is OK need to stop and think. It won’t be long until police meet you at the gate because woke Southwest kids think they found an extremist because they saw you reading Trumps book or a Bible.
You don’t have to assume.
They are.
I had a friend who was very dark, far darker than Obama.
His son was also. Then the son got some girl pregnant.
The baby girl was blond with blue eyes and Snow White.
They did the whole Maury thing and the son ‘was the father’
It seemed like every time he went anywhere with her the Cops showed up..
So many times, people assumed my children weren't with me, even though I was standing right next to them, wherever we were. People would walk up, look at the kids, glance at me, then look around and ask, "Who's with these kids?" LOL. That stuff was funny to me. I still laugh about it. OTOH, it's not funny if someone believes you're kidnapping the kids.
Remember that “see something, say something” is the only way the Stasi can uncover anti-social wreckers who want to destroy the People’s Republic.
“So.....predictable”
How does that matter in this situation ?
Maybe the dad was a bum and divorced the mom!
Moms and daughters traveling together is a common thing.
Was this in Louisiana?
“If you see something, say something.”
“If you see something suspicious, say something suspicious.”
How about MYOFB.
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