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May 9, 2016

Italian Economist Pulled from Plane for Doing Math in Latest Profiling Incident
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And in the latest act of ethnic or racial profiling on U.S. airlines, an
Italian man was removed from an airplane and questioned after the woman
next to him raised alarms about cryptic messages he was scrawling on a
notepad. The scribbles turned out to be mathematical equations, and the
man turned out to be Guido Menzio, a prominent economist. He was
ultimately allowed to reboard his American Airlines flight, which
departed more than two hours late.


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