SEATTLE — A woman filed a complaint against a Seattle Airport after she says she was discriminated against during a pre-flight pat down because of her \u201cpoofy\u201d hair.<\/p>\n
Laura Adiele<\/strong>, who is African American, was singled out of a security checkpoint line after passing through the Advance Imaging System and told she would need to be patted down.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I first heard her say, \u2018We’re going to have to pat you down,’ I thought she was talking about my body. I was turning around and putting my arms out and she said, \u2018no, we’re going to have to examine your hair,’ and I said, \u2018no, we’re not going to do that today and you’re going to have to get security or your supervisor,’\u201d said Adiele<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Adiele says she was angered further after looking in line and noticing women whose hair stuck out more than hers.<\/p>\n \u2018Why am I the only one being singled out here for poofy hair?\u201d Adiele<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n Adiele<\/strong> eventually relented to the search and says she was notified by a supervisor that airport policy requires them to check anything that \u201cpoofs\u201d from the body.<\/p>\n “It’s just totally a violation of my personal space and my biggest question is if I’m going through a full body X-ray what more do you need to find, after that?” Adiele<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n She has since filed a complaint about what she feels was a discriminatory search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SEATTLE — A woman filed a complaint against a Seattle Airport after she says she was discriminated against during a pre-flight pat down because of her \u201cpoofy\u201d hair. Laura Adiele, who is African American, was singled out of a security checkpoint line after passing through the Advance Imaging System and told she would need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}