1. Racial Profiling and the Search for Terrorists
Michael Dasrath, a U.S. citizen of Indian heritage, was removed from his flight along with two other men after a passenger told the pilot, "These brown-skinned men are behaving suspiciously."" Another Middle-Eastern man was kicked off his flight because he used his cell phone before take-off ("Airlines..."" 2). ... It is instances like this that the airline is simply acting on the irrational bias of another passenger. Reggie Shuford, attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, states, "When a...fellow passenger is given veto power over somebody else's ability to fly based on no...
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