Posted on 03/20/2017 6:52:05 AM PDT by VanShuyten
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A former North Carolina police chief whose mother is Italian and father is Somali said Sunday that he’s disappointed with his country of 42 years after he was detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Former Greenville Police Chief Hassan Aden of Alexandria, Virginia, who now works as a law enforcement consultant, said he was detained March 13 on his return trip from Paris for his mother’s 80th birthday. He supports the officers of the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, but he believes his 90-minute detention was unreasonable, he said in a telephone interview.
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I don't know anything about this guy. He could be a good guy or one that deserves to be on the watch list all by himself.
The other point is that lefties want everyone on the watch list to be disarmed. I wonder what his reaction to having all his firearms seized while the government decided he really wasn't the guy on the watch list?
If flying home (Virgina), why land at Kennedy?
Oh Poor Baby, I wonder how many time he and the Police Officers working for him NEEDLESSLY DETAINED a Citizen just because they could?? Thousands and Hundreds of thousands times, in fact Every Single Day!!!
I’m a Nobody. If I get delayed 90 minutes, I pretty much have to suck it up.
He’s a Somebody. He gets delayed 90 minutes, it’s kind of an outrage.
The Founding Fathers tried to give us a country where are all men are equal before the law and there are no Somebodies and there are no Nobodies. But we lost that awhile ago, I guess.
I’m disappointed with Somalis & sundry other people throughout this world who’s satanic behavior necessitates invasive screening for the rest of us as we travel. The guy should blame the people responsible, & maybe he should change his name to Joe Smith.
I didn’t know the government was doing such a good job.
I didn’t know the government was doing such a good job.
So now every single person who gets questioned or detained is going to get a sob story in the MSM? How many times did this happen while Obama as in office? I am sure it did but we didn’t get the sob stories. Its kinda like homelessness. It only gets played up when a Republican is in office.
Unreasonable my butt! 90 minutes is nothing, NOTHING, if they've got a reasonable reason to ask some questions. As a former police chief I'm certain he's detained innocent people longer than that because he assumed his department's right to know whatever it wanted to know superseded that person's convenience.
Very happy to hear that U.S. Customs is doing their job.
Scrutiny for thee, not for me.
Seems to be a trend among law enforcement.
I often need to fly through JFK instead of flying directly to BWI / IAD - depends on price, availability, and connections.
He is assuming that a security delay at the airport is a political punishment because that is how things were done under Odinga.
Having been detained at an airport for far longer than 90 minutes (for good reason, given what the people detaining me knew, although they ended up letting me through eventually), I have no sympathy. Security is less important than the Constitution but more important than convenience. My constitutional rights were not violated when I was detained, and the safety of my fellow passengers took precedence over my convenience, as it should.
Hmmmmm?
Could this be the hobnailed boot of Orwellian tyranny coming down on the human face of one lone hero lifting his voice in defiance of the state proclaiming “I will not go quietly into the night,” or a butt hurt, exLEO, drama queen whinging over the inconvenience of not being treated “special?”
You decide.
Except under Obama the people detained were little old white ladies with colostomy bags in wheelchairs.
He is senior advisor at vera Institute of justice. “Vera describes its goal as “to tackle the most pressing injustices of our day: from the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, racial disparities, and the loss of public trust in law enforcement...”
I have at least 5 generations of American (Virginia and Texas) ancestry and I’m delayed all the time. Frisked. Subjected to xrays. I pay my taxes on time, I take no federal grants, I obey the law. For some reason, no reporter wants to hear my story!
I wonder how many innocent people he and his department detained and investigated over the years.
I’m sure he had no problem with that.
“I (hassan Aden) spent nearly 30 years serving the public in law enforcement. I interface with high level U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Court officials almost daily,” he wrote. “Prior to this administration, I frequently attended meetings at the White House and advised on national police policy reforms. All that to say, if this can happen to me, it can happen to anyone with attributes that can be ‘profiled.’ No one is safe from this type of unlawful government intrusion.”
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