Monday, September 23, 2002

I don't know nothin bout profilin no races!

Denials of racial profiling on commercial flights are starting to sound more and more ridiculous. Take this story about a Indian-born doctor Bob Rajcoomar, a naturalized citizen and former U.S. Army major, who was detained on August 31, for the crime of upsetting air marshals with his looks.


Rajcoomar said the marshals came over to him. "One of these marshals came down to me and said, 'Head down, hands over your head!'"

Rajcoomar said he was given no explanation for why he was being held.

"One of the marshals said something like, 'We didn't like the way you look,'" he said.


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