Ten Years Ago, A Baby Was Labelled As A Suspected Terrorist in Detroit Airport

It’s been nearly 10 years since one of the most unbelievable incident has happened in a Detroit airport, when a seven-month-old boy received a chemical treatment after being accused of being a known or suspected terrorist.

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016, a mother and her seven-year-old son got stopped at the Detroit Metropolitan airport, and they were detained and they were subjected to searches, including a chemical treatment of her seven-month-old baby.

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How Did This Happen?

Apparently, one of their tickets had a special code that was used to alert security agents and airline personnel that one of them was a "suspected or known terrorist."

Patch.com originally wrote the story about how this poor mother and her son were subjected to this, which was one of the reasons a massive lawsuit was filed against the US government for claiming individuals were seen as terrorists without any substantial proof.

I think when your identifying system is labeling a seven-month-old baby as a terrorist, it might be time to go back to the drawing board, as Patch explained:

The woman's ticket had no such code. Her son's did. The United States government had designated this tiny boy, just beginning to crawl, a known or suspected terrorist. Filed in U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia by the Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, the suit claims that placement on the watch list is motivated more by religious profiling than security threats.

This list had labeled over 1 million people on their list, so hopefully, since then, it's been updated substantially.