Cindy McCain apologises after police dispute human trafficking claim
LBN thread: Cindy McCain claimed she thwarted human trafficking at Sky Harbor, police say she didn't
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Source: BBC
Cindy McCain apologises after police dispute human trafficking claim
7 February 2019
Cindy McCain, the widow of former US Senator John McCain, has apologised after police disputed her claim that she stopped a human trafficking case.
Mrs McCain told KTAR radio she thwarted a crime by alerting Phoenix airport police to a woman of a different ethnicity than the child she was with.
But Phoenix police told the station on Wednesday that they found no criminal wrongdoing after performing the check.
Critics on social media have accused her of racial profiling and harassment.
What exactly happened?
"I came in from a trip I'd been on and I spotted - it looked odd - it was a woman of a different ethnicity than the child, this little toddler she had, and something didn't click with me," said Mrs McCain, 64, who also co-chair's the Arizona governor's anti-trafficking taskforce.
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