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Former Alexandria deputy police chief says he was detained at JFK Airport because of his name
Former Alexandria deputy police chief says he was detained at JFK Airport because of his name
A former deputy Alexandria police chief says he was detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport and held for 90 minutes earlier this month because of his name. Hassan Aden, 52, of Alexandria, spent 26 years with the Alexandria Police Department before leaving in 2012 to become chief of police in Greenville, N.C.
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Well it's true! Terrorists and illegals have names! An estimated 100% of them have names. They sometimes try to hide it but they do. Some of them have even been known to drink water and breath air. Telltale. It'd be crazy to let them in.
Well it is true that 100% of terrorists and school shooters have used dihydrogen monoxide Why isnt anyone doing anything about this? /s
Obama is stopping them.
Trump rolled back his evil "clean" dihydrogen monoxide order.
Edit: Sorry I'm way to sarcastic to be on the internet tonight. It's a vice I struggle with sometimes.
No need to apologize, I started it with the DHO site. Sometimes you have to make a joke or be a little sarcastic when dealing with anything involving Trump to keep your sanity.
So he was a police officer and chief of police for 26 years and returning home from Paris gets detained for 90 minutes for no real reason. Gotta love how "well thought out" Trump's policies are and how all they are doing is pissing off US citizens who decide to travel with non white names.
Are we sure these stops are because of Trump's policies? Let's be honest, hassling travelers with brown skin or Middle-Eastern-sounding names has been TSA and CBP's MO since 9/11. Has there really been an uptick in these incidents, or is the media just reporting it more frequently?
Might be a little bit of both, but for the guy in this story and Mohammad Ali Jr who was detained twice its the first time they where detained and both are well known enough to get a story published about them. The muslim bans and Trump's policies are not helping in either case.
Perhaps illustrates why "respectability politics"—posturing as good mainstream little bots—won't save us.