On Friday, May 9, 2014, just after 5:30am in Killeen, Texas, Marvin Louis Guy was the target of a no knock raid.
The officers were looking for drugs, yet none were found in the home. There was some questionable paraphernalia, but nothing indicative of drug dealing- or anything damning enough for a reasonable person to feel the need to take an officers life.
Likely alarmed by the men climbing through his windows at 5:30 in the morning, Guy and his wife sought to protect themselves and their property and fired on the intruders – in self defense.
Dinwiddie, along with three other officers were shot while attempting to breach the windows to the home, according to the department’s press release.
Since the shooting occurred during the break in, a reasonable person would assume they had not yet identified themselves as police officers. How on earth is this not self defense?
Prosecutors are now seeking the death penalty against Guy. He is charged with capital murder in Dinwiddie’s death, as well as three counts of attempted capital murder for firing on the other officers during the shootout, injuring one other officer. Body armor protected others who were hit.
This is wrong on so many levels… Everything he wanted to do is to save himself, his pregnant woman and their property. That’s what the 2nd amendment was created for. But he’s a black man, and if he had been white NRA supporters would be in the streets protesting his 2nd amendment rights and his right to defend his home.
Hell if he had been white they never would have considered pressing charges.
Justice for Martin Louis Guy!
Bust it.
Here’s the petition “Please drop the Capital Murder and Attempted Murder charges against Marvin Louis Guy for the shooting death of Officer during a No-Knock Raid at his Home”.
What the fuck is a no-knock raid??? They shouldn’t be allowed to do that!
A No-Knock Raid was practice that was implemented during the War On Drugs. There are “legal” parameters for it. General speaking it is ineffective and has a strong likelihood of civilians getting shot. Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow explains it better than I can
1,913 more signatures needed
This prosecution isn’t justice. It’s revenge. The man did the right thing by protecting his family from intruders. The cops were in the wrong. Period.
When I first started this blog it naturally didn’t receive much attention, in spite of how much work I put into it. The first attention this blog received was when I began writing about how the Xkit Guy was harassed off of Tumblr by Social Justice Warriors. First, I posted my own analysis of the facts after doing my research and it received several hundred notes, almost all reblogs and positive comments from people who appreciated hearing the real story of what happened. Then, in response to several people who were requesting sources to do their own research on the Xkit Guy, I made a post with all my sources, and it also got over a hundred notes.
However, SJWs didn’t ever accept the truth and they sure as hell didn’t like me talking about it. They not only ranted about my posts, but they even threatened to break off contact with anyone who reblogged them. This was back before Tumblr had even the rudimentary block feature they have now, so there was really nothing to be done other than to enjoy how much my actions were angering the SJWs. They are still at it even now. Only a few days ago I saw a post where an SJW was repeating the blatant lie that Xkit Guy just arbitrarily wandered off before they started harassing him (no comment on why they needed to harass a supposedly inactive blog).
So now, it begins again with those of us speaking the truth about Ahmed Mohamed, the now (in)famous clock hoaxer who has received invitations to meet with President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg. The SJWs are already threatening to “ruin” anyone who questions the narrative that Ahmed is the poor victim of Islamophobia and racism from the teachers at his public school (which is ironically a group that the leftists would usually defend at all costs, but who they now seem eager to throw under the bus). One of the blogs doing this is even circumventing the Tumblr block feature by taking screen shots of my blog to post and insult.
So what can I do to continue angering the SJWs this time? Well, tell the truth again, of course!
Fact #1: Ahmed didn’t “build” or “invent” his clock. He bought a clock off the internet and pasted the parts into his pencil case.
So I turned to eBay, searching for vintage alarm clocks. It only took a minute to locate Ahmed’s clock. See this eBay listing, up at the time of this writing. Amhed’s clock was invented, and built, by Micronta, a Radio Shack subsidary. Catalog number 63 765.
The shape and design is a dead give away. The large screen. The buttons
on the front laid out horizontally would have been on a separate board –
a large snooze button, four control buttons, and two switches to turn
the alarm on and off, and choose two brightness levels. A second board
inside would have contained the actual “brains” of the unit. The clock
features a 9v battery back-up, and a switch on the rear allows the owner
to choose between 12 and 24 hour time. (Features like a battery
back-up, and a 24 hour time selection seems awful superfluous for a
hobby project, don’t you think?) Oh, and about that “M” logo on the
circuit board mentioned above? Micronta.
Fact #2: Ahmed knew the “clock” could be seen as a threat.
Ahmed asserted, “I closed [the ‘clock’] with a cable, I didn’t want to
lock it to make it seem like a threat. So I just used a simple cable so
it won’tlook that much suspicious.” Ahmed’s assessment would juxtapose
nicely with police chief Larry Boyd, who had stated that the clock was
“certainly suspicious in nature.”
Fact #3: Ahmed’s science teacher told him not to show the “clock” to anyone.
He showed the device to his science teacher who told him to put it away
since it looked like a bomb. Later when he had the device in a briefcase
and plugged in the alarm on it went off and a second teacher noted that
it looked like a bomb.
Fact #4: Yes, Ahmed’s “clock” does look like a bomb (or a bomb trigger, or possibly just a hoax bomb).
I have built and taught classes on improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
and the clock he brought to school is a dead ringer for the trigger used
on many of these homemade bombs.
Fact #5: Because of public school “Zero Tolerance” policies, Ahmed placed his teachers in a situation where they were forced to report him to law enforcement. It had nothing to do with his race or religion.
Once that logical determination was made, the school officials had to
act. It was not their job, nor did they have the expertise, to determine
the actual purpose of the device. They were required to involve law
enforcement to make those judgments and when the police arrived they
have policies to follow when faced with a possible homemade explosive
device.
Fact #6: The teachers and police knew the “clock” wasn’t a real bomb. Their suspicion was that Ahmed brought the clock to school as a hoax, which is a separate crime of it’s own.
Here’s the statute Ahmed Mohammed authorities originally suspected Mohammed of violating (Texas Penal Code Section 46.08):
(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly manufactures, sells, purchases, transports, or possesses a hoax bomb with intent to use the hoax bomb to:
(1) make another believe that the hoax bomb is an explosive or incendiary device; or
(2) cause alarm or reaction of any type by an official of a public safety agency or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
Nobody said Mohammed built an actual bomb. They suspected that he had wanted to frighten or alarm officials with a hoax-bomb.
Fact #8: Ahmed’s family is blocking the release of records involving the case, refusing to meet with the school, police or the mayor and has “lawyered up” to promote their agenda.
Irving Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne said last night that the family of
Ahmed Mohammed has repeatedly refused to meet with city officials,
refused to released records exonerating police conduct, and that
President Obama had tweeted about the case even before pictures of the
so-called “clock” were publicly available.
In very short order, the family was under management by the Council on
American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization established –
ironically, in a federal prosecution conducted in nearby Richardson,
Texas – to be a Muslim Brotherhood-associated fundraising and political
warfare arm for the designated terrorist group, Hamas. Ahmed lawyered up
and he and his family were no-shows for scheduled meetings with school
officials and with the police chief and Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne.
Fact #9: The most likely reason the family refuses to release Ahmed’s education records is his extensive history as a disciplinary problem for the school.
The Dallas Morning News described Mohamed as having “racked up weeks of suspension” and pranking the “classroom projector.”
Kubiak admits a fondness for Mohamed yet dubbed him a “weird little kid” who could either wind up the CEO of a company or “head of a gang.”
Fact #10: The group representing Ahmed’s family, CAIR, has been connected to overseas terrorists groups by the FBI.
In testimony Tuesday, FBI Agent Lara Burns reported before the jury in
the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial that the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was listed as a member of the Muslim
Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, right alongside HLF, the Islamic
Association for Palestine (IAP), and the United Association for Studies
and Research (UASR).
Fact #11: Ahmed’s Father is an Islamic activist, claims to be a Sheikh, has run for political office in Sudan and has been involved in other previous Islamic publicity stunts. All of these activities are openly doubted by other Muslims.
Muslim leaders in Texas, meanwhile, doubted his claims to religious and scholarly leadership. “This so-called leader, we have never heard of this person,” Imam Zia ul Haque Sheikh, head of the Islamic Center of Irving, told the Seattle Times. “I believe the whole thing is made up.”
Fact #12: When questioned about his motives, Ahmed is being fed answers by his family.
We talked about science, but while I’m talking to him on the phone, as I
ask him a question, ‘Tell me what happened,’ because I’m curious,
right? His sister, over his shoulder, you could hear, listening to the
question, giving him the answer.
Fact #13: The viral photo of Ahmed being “arrested” was actually staged by his family.
The photograph of him in handcuffs that has gone viral, however, was not
taken as he was escorted from the high school. Rather, it was staged
after his father insisted at the police station that the cuffs remain on
so his sister could take the picture.
Fact #14: Ahmed’s family were already multi-millionaires, even before they started receiving free gifts, computers and college scholarships from dozens of different sources.
Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed is a self-made multi-millionaire. He started
from the bottom and worked his way up to the top, ultimately selling his
taxi cab company for millions of dollars. His success will somehow be
used to show how unwelcoming America is to Muslim immigrants.
Fact #15: Irving was already a battleground between Islamists and the local mayor before this stunt took place.
Mayor Van Duyne has been a prime target of the Muslim grievance industry in Texas – a fixture of the Islamists’ large and aggressive operations in the state and elsewhere – ever since last spring when she opposed the establishment of an Islamic tribunal in her city. She did so out of a legitimate concern that such an entity would serve as its counterparts have elsewhere, notably in Britain – namely, as a vehicle for dispensing “justice” as defined, not by the laws of the land, but in accordance with the Islamic supremacist code called shariah.
Another data point: Attacks on Ms. Van Duyne in connection with the Ahmed Mohamed affair appear to have been pre-arranged and synchronized, rather than the sort of reaction that builds over time. Her Facebook and Twitter accounts, and those of the city government and school district, were suddenly and massively assaulted with vehement denunciations of the treatment of this student. Some were so vile, obscene and threatening that the Mayor has been compelled to accept police protection.
Fact #16: The tech community is already beginning to rebel against the media narrative.
This blind support for Ahmed is more dangerous than the lack of STEM education in the world. It’s false intellectualism which results in very real anti-intellectualism. The idea that he did something great because people reacted poorly to it ignores the fact that he didn’t do anything at all, and it not only lowers the bar for what should be considered STEM, it drops it straight to the deck.
Fact #17: Tumblr SJWs are desperate to silence critics of Ahmed, by whatever harassment necessary.
When asshole racist bigots over look the fact a 14 year old cannot
manufacture his own parts to build a clock. So the obvious inexpensive
way to build a clock is with old clocks. This doesn’t mean he is a
fraud. It just means you are an idiot who expects a 14 year old to own
his own multimillion dollar clock parts company where he can get clock
parts for cheap. LOL it still does not mean he should have been arrested
or taken his rights away. NICE TRY ASSHOLE, MAYBE NEXT TIME. Let me
know if you know any 14 year old with his own manufacturing company.
Dumbass
I hope people see that video so they can destroy the social media life of the creator
Analysis: This entire incident has been a carefully orchestrated hoax to promote a political agenda.
Ahmed, almost certainly directed by his father, used a commercially manufactured clock to create a ‘hoax bomb’ inside of his pencil case which he took to school to intentionally spook his teachers. The school administrators and police reacted in a predictable fashion, as they would if any student brought a suspicious item to school.
From there, Ahmed’s father and his handlers at CAIR took over to promote a narrative that Ahmed was treated differently because of his race and religion. This narrative serves the agenda of these individuals. Ahmed’s father needed a boost to his ailing political career, while CAIR intended to utilize the hoax to push their “islamophobia” claims. Other leftist outfits quickly joined the bandwagon, with individuals like Obama and Mark Zuckerberg looking to push their mass immigration agenda.
You don’t need to be a genius to come to this conclusion, but Tumblr SJWs will continue to ignore these facts and claim their goal is to help a poor kid who got bullied by his teachers. If they really cared about this kid though, they would be more concerned with the fact that his family and CAIR are manipulating him to carry out a hoax which will follow him for the rest of his life.
Last updated September 29th, 2015.
Please reblog.
TRUTH!!!!!
Worth the read for sure
This is great, but a few vital points are missed. One of the bigger points is that he had to plug it in for it to work. His teacher told him not to show it to anyone else as it might be perceived as dangerous, but instead he actually took it to his English class, secretly plugged it in, and set an alarm to go off during that class. Knowing this device looks suspicious, even admittedly, he still plugs the bombed-esque device in, and sets an alarm to go off in a class without telling anyone what it is. It was 100% planned. Ahmed is a piece of shit. You’re a millionaire, fuck off and be happy with that fact. You are not a victim.
I didn’t know a lot of these specifics. This definitely reeks.
Wow. I didn’t know all this. I mean, I knew something was fishy but….just wow.
-Melody
Seriously?….My faith in humanity has dropped a bit just now..
When I first started this blog it naturally didn’t receive much attention, in spite of how much work I put into it. The first attention this blog received was when I began writing about how the Xkit Guy was harassed off of Tumblr by Social Justice Warriors. First, I posted my own analysis of the facts after doing my research and it received several hundred notes, almost all reblogs and positive comments from people who appreciated hearing the real story of what happened. Then, in response to several people who were requesting sources to do their own research on the Xkit Guy, I made a post with all my sources, and it also got over a hundred notes.
However, SJWs didn’t ever accept the truth and they sure as hell didn’t like me talking about it. They not only ranted about my posts, but they even threatened to break off contact with anyone who reblogged them. This was back before Tumblr had even the rudimentary block feature they have now, so there was really nothing to be done other than to enjoy how much my actions were angering the SJWs. They are still at it even now. Only a few days ago I saw a post where an SJW was repeating the blatant lie that Xkit Guy just arbitrarily wandered off before they started harassing him (no comment on why they needed to harass a supposedly inactive blog).
So now, it begins again with those of us speaking the truth about Ahmed Mohamed, the now (in)famous clock hoaxer who has received invitations to meet with President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg. The SJWs are already threatening to “ruin” anyone who questions the narrative that Ahmed is the poor victim of Islamophobia and racism from the teachers at his public school (which is ironically a group that the leftists would usually defend at all costs, but who they now seem eager to throw under the bus). One of the blogs doing this is even circumventing the Tumblr block feature by taking screen shots of my blog to post and insult.
So what can I do to continue angering the SJWs this time? Well, tell the truth again, of course!
Fact #1: Ahmed didn’t “build” or “invent” his clock. He bought a clock off the internet and pasted the parts into his pencil case.
So I turned to eBay, searching for vintage alarm clocks. It only took a minute to locate Ahmed’s clock. See this eBay listing, up at the time of this writing. Amhed’s clock was invented, and built, by Micronta, a Radio Shack subsidary. Catalog number 63 765.
The shape and design is a dead give away. The large screen. The buttons
on the front laid out horizontally would have been on a separate board –
a large snooze button, four control buttons, and two switches to turn
the alarm on and off, and choose two brightness levels. A second board
inside would have contained the actual “brains” of the unit. The clock
features a 9v battery back-up, and a switch on the rear allows the owner
to choose between 12 and 24 hour time. (Features like a battery
back-up, and a 24 hour time selection seems awful superfluous for a
hobby project, don’t you think?) Oh, and about that “M” logo on the
circuit board mentioned above? Micronta.
Fact #2: Ahmed knew the “clock” could be seen as a threat.
Ahmed asserted, “I closed [the ‘clock’] with a cable, I didn’t want to
lock it to make it seem like a threat. So I just used a simple cable so
it won’tlook that much suspicious.” Ahmed’s assessment would juxtapose
nicely with police chief Larry Boyd, who had stated that the clock was
“certainly suspicious in nature.”
Fact #3: Ahmed’s science teacher told him not to show the “clock” to anyone.
He showed the device to his science teacher who told him to put it away
since it looked like a bomb. Later when he had the device in a briefcase
and plugged in the alarm on it went off and a second teacher noted that
it looked like a bomb.
Fact #4: Yes, Ahmed’s “clock” does look like a bomb (or a bomb trigger, or possibly just a hoax bomb).
I have built and taught classes on improvised explosive devices (IEDs)
and the clock he brought to school is a dead ringer for the trigger used
on many of these homemade bombs.
Fact #5: Because of public school “Zero Tolerance” policies, Ahmed placed his teachers in a situation where they were forced to report him to law enforcement. It had nothing to do with his race or religion.
Once that logical determination was made, the school officials had to
act. It was not their job, nor did they have the expertise, to determine
the actual purpose of the device. They were required to involve law
enforcement to make those judgments and when the police arrived they
have policies to follow when faced with a possible homemade explosive
device.
Fact #6: The teachers and police knew the “clock” wasn’t a real bomb. Their suspicion was that Ahmed brought the clock to school as a hoax, which is a separate crime of it’s own.
Here’s the statute Ahmed Mohammed authorities originally suspected Mohammed of violating (Texas Penal Code Section 46.08):
(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly manufactures, sells, purchases, transports, or possesses a hoax bomb with intent to use the hoax bomb to:
(1) make another believe that the hoax bomb is an explosive or incendiary device; or
(2) cause alarm or reaction of any type by an official of a public safety agency or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
Nobody said Mohammed built an actual bomb. They suspected that he had wanted to frighten or alarm officials with a hoax-bomb.
Fact #8: Ahmed’s family is blocking the release of records involving the case, refusing to meet with the school, police or the mayor and has “lawyered up” to promote their agenda.
Irving Texas Mayor Beth Van Duyne said last night that the family of
Ahmed Mohammed has repeatedly refused to meet with city officials,
refused to released records exonerating police conduct, and that
President Obama had tweeted about the case even before pictures of the
so-called “clock” were publicly available.
In very short order, the family was under management by the Council on
American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization established –
ironically, in a federal prosecution conducted in nearby Richardson,
Texas – to be a Muslim Brotherhood-associated fundraising and political
warfare arm for the designated terrorist group, Hamas. Ahmed lawyered up
and he and his family were no-shows for scheduled meetings with school
officials and with the police chief and Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne.
Fact #9: The most likely reason the family refuses to release Ahmed’s education records is his extensive history as a disciplinary problem for the school.
The Dallas Morning News described Mohamed as having “racked up weeks of suspension” and pranking the “classroom projector.”
Kubiak admits a fondness for Mohamed yet dubbed him a “weird little kid” who could either wind up the CEO of a company or “head of a gang.”
Fact #10: The group representing Ahmed’s family, CAIR, has been connected to overseas terrorists groups by the FBI.
In testimony Tuesday, FBI Agent Lara Burns reported before the jury in
the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial that the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was listed as a member of the Muslim
Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee, right alongside HLF, the Islamic
Association for Palestine (IAP), and the United Association for Studies
and Research (UASR).
Fact #11: Ahmed’s Father is an Islamic activist, claims to be a Sheikh, has run for political office in Sudan and has been involved in other previous Islamic publicity stunts. All of these activities are openly doubted by other Muslims.
Muslim leaders in Texas, meanwhile, doubted his claims to religious and scholarly leadership. “This so-called leader, we have never heard of this person,” Imam Zia ul Haque Sheikh, head of the Islamic Center of Irving, told the Seattle Times. “I believe the whole thing is made up.”
Fact #12: When questioned about his motives, Ahmed is being fed answers by his family.
We talked about science, but while I’m talking to him on the phone, as I
ask him a question, ‘Tell me what happened,’ because I’m curious,
right? His sister, over his shoulder, you could hear, listening to the
question, giving him the answer.
Fact #13: The viral photo of Ahmed being “arrested” was actually staged by his family.
The photograph of him in handcuffs that has gone viral, however, was not
taken as he was escorted from the high school. Rather, it was staged
after his father insisted at the police station that the cuffs remain on
so his sister could take the picture.
Fact #14: Ahmed’s family were already multi-millionaires, even before they started receiving free gifts, computers and college scholarships from dozens of different sources.
Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed is a self-made multi-millionaire. He started
from the bottom and worked his way up to the top, ultimately selling his
taxi cab company for millions of dollars. His success will somehow be
used to show how unwelcoming America is to Muslim immigrants.
Fact #15: Irving was already a battleground between Islamists and the local mayor before this stunt took place.
Mayor Van Duyne has been a prime target of the Muslim grievance industry in Texas – a fixture of the Islamists’ large and aggressive operations in the state and elsewhere – ever since last spring when she opposed the establishment of an Islamic tribunal in her city. She did so out of a legitimate concern that such an entity would serve as its counterparts have elsewhere, notably in Britain – namely, as a vehicle for dispensing “justice” as defined, not by the laws of the land, but in accordance with the Islamic supremacist code called shariah.
Another data point: Attacks on Ms. Van Duyne in connection with the Ahmed Mohamed affair appear to have been pre-arranged and synchronized, rather than the sort of reaction that builds over time. Her Facebook and Twitter accounts, and those of the city government and school district, were suddenly and massively assaulted with vehement denunciations of the treatment of this student. Some were so vile, obscene and threatening that the Mayor has been compelled to accept police protection.
Fact #16: The tech community is already beginning to rebel against the media narrative.
This blind support for Ahmed is more dangerous than the lack of STEM education in the world. It’s false intellectualism which results in very real anti-intellectualism. The idea that he did something great because people reacted poorly to it ignores the fact that he didn’t do anything at all, and it not only lowers the bar for what should be considered STEM, it drops it straight to the deck.
Fact #17: Tumblr SJWs are desperate to silence critics of Ahmed, by whatever harassment necessary.
When asshole racist bigots over look the fact a 14 year old cannot
manufacture his own parts to build a clock. So the obvious inexpensive
way to build a clock is with old clocks. This doesn’t mean he is a
fraud. It just means you are an idiot who expects a 14 year old to own
his own multimillion dollar clock parts company where he can get clock
parts for cheap. LOL it still does not mean he should have been arrested
or taken his rights away. NICE TRY ASSHOLE, MAYBE NEXT TIME. Let me
know if you know any 14 year old with his own manufacturing company.
Dumbass
I hope people see that video so they can destroy the social media life of the creator
Analysis: This entire incident has been a carefully orchestrated hoax to promote a political agenda.
Ahmed, almost certainly directed by his father, used a commercially manufactured clock to create a ‘hoax bomb’ inside of his pencil case which he took to school to intentionally spook his teachers. The school administrators and police reacted in a predictable fashion, as they would if any student brought a suspicious item to school.
From there, Ahmed’s father and his handlers at CAIR took over to promote a narrative that Ahmed was treated differently because of his race and religion. This narrative serves the agenda of these individuals. Ahmed’s father needed a boost to his ailing political career, while CAIR intended to utilize the hoax to push their “islamophobia” claims. Other leftist outfits quickly joined the bandwagon, with individuals like Obama and Mark Zuckerberg looking to push their mass immigration agenda.
You don’t need to be a genius to come to this conclusion, but Tumblr SJWs will continue to ignore these facts and claim their goal is to help a poor kid who got bullied by his teachers. If they really cared about this kid though, they would be more concerned with the fact that his family and CAIR are manipulating him to carry out a hoax which will follow him for the rest of his life.
Last updated September 29th, 2015.
Please reblog.
TRUTH!!!!!
Worth the read for sure
This is great, but a few vital points are missed. One of the bigger points is that he had to plug it in for it to work. His teacher told him not to show it to anyone else as it might be perceived as dangerous, but instead he actually took it to his English class, secretly plugged it in, and set an alarm to go off during that class. Knowing this device looks suspicious, even admittedly, he still plugs the bombed-esque device in, and sets an alarm to go off in a class without telling anyone what it is. It was 100% planned. Ahmed is a piece of shit. You’re a millionaire, fuck off and be happy with that fact. You are not a victim.
I didn’t know a lot of these specifics. This definitely reeks.
Wow. I didn’t know all this. I mean, I knew something was fishy but….just wow.
-Melody
Seriously?….My faith in humanity has dropped a bit just now..
It’s vacation season for much of the world, with travelers flocking to airports to jet off for some hard-earned R&R.
But it’s not just holidaymakers who fly on planes. Airports are also hubs for human trafficking – where adults or children are transported into forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation.
Almost every country in the world is affected by trafficking, and traffickers often use air travel to move their victims. Sometimes, victims are flown into another country on the promise of a legitimate job, other times traffickers move their victims within a country, to keep them powerless or to avoid detection.
But you can help. By being aware of the telltale signs that someone is being trafficked, you may be able to keep them from a life of modern slavery.
We asked four organizations involved in anti-trafficking initiatives to share some of the signs that could indicate that a passenger is being trafficked through an airport.
What you should do
It’s important to remember that even if you spot a number of these signs, it doesn’t necessarily mean someone is being trafficked. But if you do suspect someone is being trafficked, do not confront suspected traffickers or attempt to rescue suspected victims – instead, call emergency services or alert the airport authorities.
Warning signs:
1 – A traveler is not dressed appropriately for their route of travel.
You might notice right away that a traveler has few or no personal items. Victims may be less well dressed than their companions. They may be wearing clothes that are the wrong size, or are not appropriate for the weather on their route of travel.
2 – They have a tattoo with a bar code, the word “Daddy.”
Many people have tattoos, so a tattoo in itself is obviously not an indicator, but traffickers or pimps feel they own their victims and a barcode tattoo, or a tattoo with “Daddy” or even a man’s name could be a red flag that the person is a victim.
3 – They can’t provide details of their departure location, destination, or flight information.
Traffickers employ a number of tools to avoid raising suspicion about their crime and to keep victims enslaved. Some traffickers won’t tell their victims where they are located, being taken, or even what job they will have.
Because victims don’t have the means to get home or pay for things like food, they must rely on traffickers in order to get by, forcing them to stay in their situation.
4 – Their communication seems scripted, or there are inconsistencies with their story
Sometimes traffickers will coach their victims to say certain things in public to avoid suspicion. A traveler whose story seems inconsistent or too scripted might be trying to hide the real reason for their travel and merely reciting what a trafficker has told them to say.
5 – They can’t move freely in an airport or on a plane, or they are being controlled, closely watched or followed.
People being trafficked into slavery are sometimes guarded in transit. A trafficker will try to ensure that the victim does not escape, or reach out to authorities for help.
6 – They are afraid to discuss themselves around others, deferring any attempts at conversation to someone who appears to be controlling them.
Fear and intimidation are two of the tools that traffickers use to control people in slavery. Traffickers often prevent victims from interacting with the public because the victim might say something that raises suspicions about their safety and freedom.
7 – Child trafficking
A child being trafficked for sexual exploitation may be dressed in a sexualized manner, or seem to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
A child may appear to be malnourished and/or shows signs of physical or sexual abuse, such as bruises, scars, or cigarette burns.
This list was compiled with help from the following organizations: