Posted on 08/07/2023 10:59:49 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Wait, isn't Cindy McCain the mother of a daughter who is a different ethnicity than her? Why didn't this beer Karen arrest herself?
Isn't she the largest distributor of Bud Light in the country? What did Cindy know Mulvaney and when did she know it?
It was a plane, so didn’t the mother have to have some paperwork getting on?
I smell a hoax.
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Right. You have to show ID when checking in, before you even get to the TSA screenings.
It’s the SoundOfFreedom effect.
Hoax indeed. A real mother would be thankful they cared enough to try to protect people’s children.
Does that apply to kids? I never had ID as a kid, and I was on planes all the times, except that was long before 9/11. I don’t think I had a passport until I was a teen, or so.
-PJ
This story doesn’t wash...
Airline employees see every race, religion, etc all day long. I don’t believe what the mother is saying at all.
***people who seem “nervous.”***
Ummm, that’s me when I fly, because it feels like I’m in a cattle car. I’m on someone else’s schedule, and they seem to have lots of rules about what you can and can’t bring on a flight.
Oh, and the bomb-sniffing German Shepherd makes me feel very comfortable, too. /s
Biracial families are ubiquitous now. No one bats an eye anymore.
Either someone at SW is loony or there’s more to this story.
The incident was not an occasion of false claims by someone.
I saw the mom on TV this moring and saw the video of her and her daughter being confronted by the false charges as the deboarded the plane; the daughter was crying the whole time. The mom is white and her daughter is biracial. They did not have seats ticketed together. With the flight attendants knowledge the mom asked ofher passengers if they could make some accomodation so she and her daughter could sit together.
Someone on the flight staff reported that they suspected the mom of being part of human trafficking. They did not even check the flight manifest showing mom and daughter have the last name.
It was not a “racial” incident, just a stupid incident.
The incident was not an occasion of false claims by someone.
I saw the mom on TV this moring and saw the video of her and her daughter being confronted by the false charges as the deboarded the plane; the daughter was crying the whole time. The mom is white and her daughter is biracial. They did not have seats ticketed together. With the flight attendants knowledge the mom asked ofher passengers if they could make some accomodation so she and her daughter could sit together.
Someone on the flight staff reported that they suspected the mom of being part of human trafficking. They did not even check the flight manifest showing mom and daughter have the last name.
It was not a “racial” incident, just a stupid incident.
Post 9/11, I had multiple passengers report to me that they thought a certain passengers was acting suspiciously. I reported it to the pilots and a very thorough investigation was done - without the passenger even knowing of it or that they were being accused. Once all was good, I reassured the passengers that all was good and we were on our way.
Going up to the cockpit, closing the door and reporting what multiple people had. said, I almost collapsed and was shaking. Turns out, the guy was just a nervous flyer.
Those FAs who reported that mother could have easily seen a relationship between the mother and daughter and that the child wasn’t being trafficked. However, I do not think it was lawsuit worthy unless the mother was put in a serious situation and threatened by LE.
My guess is such mistakes happen a lot these days, but bad outcomes (or publicity) are rare.
My other (less charitable) guess is this story has its roots in a desire for publicity.
I worked in an airport for a decade and I recall people blending together. It was behaviors that caught my attention. I can see a passenger bringing attention to something like this, but not an employee.
This article is about the airline employee, not a passenger.
Frivolous lawsuit. So the cops stop you for one minute to make sure that everything is ok. Gee, the horror of it! And if the daughter started crying at the cops asking a couple of questions, maybe she has other issues that should be addressed.
Something similar happened to my nephew and his wife. They vacationed in Mexico. Nephew is pale white, his wife is dark black, and they have a bi-racial son who is more on the white side. The black wife was crossing the border into the USA and Mexican authorities detained her, accusing her of child trafficking the son because he looked nothing like her. Took her awhile to produce paperwork that proved he was her son.
...which is why it stinks.
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