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A Black social worker is suing American Airlines for allegedly accusing her of kidnapping the white toddler she was escorting on a flight


https://news.yahoo.com/black-social-worker-suing-american-193343442.html


A Black social worker is suing American Airlines after airline employees suspected her of kidnapping a white toddler whom she was accompanying during a flight last fall.

Shannon Murphy, a social worker with Riverside County in California, said that her civil rights were violated when she was pulled off a plane in October 2019, and airline employees took the baby she was caring for. The suit alleges violations of Murphy's civil rights, false imprisonment, and negligence. It seeks unspecified punitive and exemplary damages, and compensation for past and future medical expenses. Murphy said that she been seeing a therapist since the incident, and has suffered from insomnia and nightmares.

According to the lawsuit, which was filed in late June and was first reported by the Mercury News, Murphy was escorting the toddler back from a court-mandated two-week visit with his father in Arkansas. While waiting for the second leg of the flight to depart from Dallas-Fort Worth for Ontario International Airport near Los Angeles, a passenger allegedly told a flight attendant that they suspected Murphy of holding a kidnap victim.

The lawsuit claims that there was an alleged kidnapping that had occurred around that time, but that it was in New York City, and involved an older, Hispanic child, with black hair. The child with Murphy had blond hair and "very light skin," the lawsuit said.

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