Woman strip-searched at Detroit airport settles lawsuit
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An Arab-Jewish woman who was strip-searched at a Detroit-area airport has reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed on her behalf.
The American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday that the federal government will give Shoshana Hebshi $40,000 as compensation for being humiliated.
Frontier Airlines, the Transportation Security Administration and Wayne County Airport Authority were named in the federal lawsuit.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Airport Authority says its insurer agreed to the settlement to avoid "further time-consuming and costly litigation."
Frontier Airlines declined to comment.
Hebshi of Sylvania, Ohio, was removed from a plane after it landed at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Sept. 11, 2011. The crew had reported suspicious behavior by two Indian-American men sitting near her.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Hebshi believes she was ethnically profiled based on her dark complexion.