A white Los Angeles woman accused Southwest Airlines of racial profiling after it accused her of human trafficking while traveling with her biracial daughter, CNN reported.   

Mary MacCarthy said she and her daughter Moira were flying to Denver on Oct. 22 after learning that MacCarthy’s brother unexpectedly died. During a layover in San Jose, where they boarded another Southwest flight, she realized she and her daughter weren’t seated together.   

After the flight attendants said they wouldn’t be allowed to sit together, she asked passengers if they would be willing to move so she and Moira could sit side by side, which they obliged, she told CNN.   

After they landed in Denver, she was met at the airport by two police officers, who wanted to question her and her daughter.   

“As for my daughter, she was terribly frightened: she was already experiencing the trauma of her uncle’s death, and she is scared of police due to constant headlines about how police treat Black people (she is Black). She began to sob and was inconsolable,” MacCarthy said in an email to Southwest Airlines’ media team.   

“They said they were here because my daughter and I were reported for suspicious behavior, acting suspiciously before boarding and while boarding,” she added.  

A police report showed the cops were responding to “possible Human Trafficking reported by South West flight attendant,” according to CNN.   

MacCarthy believes that Southwest racially profiled her and her daughter and is now taking legal action with the hopes to hold the airline “fully accountable.”   

“I gave the airline plenty of time to contact me and apologize — over two weeks later, I’ve yet to receive anything more than two brief automated responses. The time for an apology is long past,” she told CNN.   

MacCarthy’s attorney, David Lane, told CNN, “Had this been a white child, there would not have been a raised eyebrow.”   

In addition to an apology, she wants reimbursement for the plane tickets and “additional compensation to account for the trauma imposed on an innocent family, and especially on a grieving ten-year-old Black girl.”   

Southwest Airlines told CNN in a statement that it’s conducting an internal investigation and will reach out to MacCarthy to apologize and address her concerns.   

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