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The problem is that I'm guessing this mom is getting questions and looks every time she goes out with her daughter.
The SW staff could have just as easily pulled the names on their tickets- which you'd have to have ID to get, anyhow- as checked their ID. The cops could have done that as well. Including pulling up her id in the DMV database they have access to. "yup. that's her."
The cops could very easily have just pulled the mom's ID off DMV, looking at the information supplied to buy her ticket. That'll get them to her on the DMV. If her ID is valid, it won't offer any more information than is on the DMV, and there's really no way to prove they're your kid at all.
One of the reason I keep old photos (and new) of my niece and nephew- especially photos of me with them- is so to show cops when I get them called on me for being a single man doing "mom"-things at the park. Dealing with cops because you don't fit some karen's idea of who should be taking kids to a park gets old very fast.
And to be perfectly blunt, "you should just be grateful we care" is incredibly ignorant; and the staffer was probably just following protocol. but the reason they did it was fundamentally rooted in racism.
Why would a 10yo have a driver's license?
because of car centric infrastructure in the US they need to drive to school /s
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You mean like you already have to do to get past security on the way to the gate, and again at the gate to get on the plane?
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Did YOU read the article?
Morgan Freeman voice: "Turns out, he never read the article."
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Oh Ok. That happens. No worries
Funny, when I do read the article, it very clearly states the mother and daughter were flying together. Here's the first two paragraphs. I've bolded the parts where it's clearly stated they were travelling together.
Read the article.
"The..."
That's definite-ly an article.
The very same ticket bought by the hypothetical human trafficker? Airports don't ID kids, so whatever name is on their ticket is just assumed to be theirs, meaning the name on the ticket matching the adult's ID isn't a verification of anything.
My kids are biracial, coming up and accusing me of having abducted them because I'm white passing is not looking out for my kids, it is telling them they are Other.