Woman strip-searched at Detroit airport settles lawsuit

A 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 today that the federal government will give Shoshana Hebshi USD 40,000 as compensation for being humiliated.

Hebshi, who's half Jewish, half Arab, believes she was ethnically profiled based on her dark complexion.

The Ohio woman 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.

Frontier Airlines, the Transportation Security Administration and Wayne County Airport Authority were named in the federal lawsuit.
 

The Airport Authority says its insurer agreed to the settlement to avoid "further time-consuming and costly litigation."

Frontier Airlines declined to comment.