Southwest Airlines accused her of trafficking her daughter. She filed a lawsuit.

Mary MacCarthy, a white woman, was accused by a Southwest Airlines flight attendant of trafficking her own biracial daughter and they were confronted by police officers after disembarking the plane, and subsequently contacted by a human trafficking unit investigator. MacCarthy is now suing the airline over the incident, claiming that the airline flagged her as suspicious "based on a racist assumption about a mixed‐race family." "The officers began questioning Ms. MacCarthy and made it clear that they were given the racially charged information that Ms. MacCarthy's daughter was possibly being...