Economics Professor Awarded $27.5m for Looking Like a Terrorist

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Samantha Carrington, an economics professor from California, was arrested because a flight attendant thought she looked like a terrorist.

A jury on El Paso, Texas ordered Southwest Airlines to pay Carrington $27.5m (£15.7m) for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. Flight attendants found her suspicious because of her appearance and accused her of being beligerant.

Ms. Carrington is of Iranian origin and had been traveling to Los Angeles to see her cancer-stricken mother. She was pleased by the verdict but has been unable to clear her name off of terror watchlists. Southwest has plans to appeal the ruling.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1752799,00.html

Now wheres my Osama mask gone?

 

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It really is unbelievable when we have had prisoners released after many years and they get about £250,000. The Carl Bridgewater case springs to mind where the innocent got peanuts and suffered for many years. The Birmingham Six and the Guldford Four all got peanuts. This woman gets thrown into jail for a couple of days and gets 27.5 million dollars.