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While most of the country was remembering the victims of September 11, a Midwestern mom was handcuffed and strip searched, along with two men from the Frontier Airlines flight from Denver that had just landed in Detroit.
The three did not know each other. What they had in common was their dark skin and Middle Eastern appearance. The two men were Indian, and the woman was -- half-Arab, half-Jewish -- blogger Shoshana Hebshi. All three were released without any charges.
Like any good blogger, Hebshi tweeted from the plane and wrote about her experience on her website, (quite ironically) titled Stories From the Heartland:
Someone shouted for us to place our hands on the seats in front of us, heads down. The cops ran down the aisle, stopped at my row and yelled at the three of us to get up. “Can I bring my phone?” I asked, of course. What a cliffhanger for my Twitter followers! No, one of the cops said, grabbing my arm a little harder than I would have liked. He slapped metal cuffs on my wrists and pushed me off the plane. The three of us, two Indian men living in the Detroit metro area, and me, a half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife living in suburban Ohio, were being detained.
