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michigandem58

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Wed Jan 23, 2013, 10:54 AM Jan 2013

ACLU files lawsuit over woman's terrifying incident at Detroit Metro Airport

A 36-year-old Ohio woman who is half-Jewish and half-Arab is suing the FBI and other federal agencies, saying she was yanked off an airplane at Detroit Metro Airport on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, strip-searched, and jailed for more than four hours in a dirty cell because of her ethnic background.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit on behalf of Shoshana Hebshi of Sylvania, who was on a Frontier Airlines flight that landed at the airport on Sept. 11, 2011. She and two Indian-American men sitting in her row were targeted by federal agents who entered the plane, handcuffed them, and pushed them down the stairs into vehicles, Hebshi said.

She was then placed in a cell, where she was ordered to strip naked, squat, and cough while an officer looked at her.

http://www.freep.com/article/20130123/NEWS05/301230093/ACLU-files-lawsuit-over-woman-s-terrifying-incident-at-Detroit-Metro-Airport?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE

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ACLU files lawsuit over woman's terrifying incident at Detroit Metro Airport (Original Post) michigandem58 Jan 2013 OP
Hope she wins. sinkingfeeling Jan 2013 #1
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