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Mom Sues After Southwest Accused Her of Trafficking Black Daughter

‘EXTREME EMOTIONAL DISTRESS’

The suit claims a Southwest Airlines employee reported Mary MacCarthy “for no reason other than the different color of her daughter’s skin from her own.”

Isabella Ramirez
Isabella Ramirez 

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A picture of a Southwest Airlines plane. Mary MacCarthy, a white mom, has sued Southwest Airlines for allegedly racial profiling her when a flight attendant reported her to the police in 2021 over suspicions that she was trafficking her black daughter.
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Isabella Ramirez

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