Originally Posted by
rrgg
Quote from their lawyer: "Just as the police are constitutionally not permitted to stop-and-frisk young men of color based upon their race, corporate America is similarly not permitted to resort to such profiling to use law enforcement to stop and question racially diverse families simply based upon their divergent races, which is what Southwest did."
Is there actually a law which says I or an employee can't report someone to the police for whatever reason (other than lying)? It's up to the police to decide what to do with that information.
Yes, "Airlines are prohibited from subjecting a person in air transportation to discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, or ancestry."
DOT Discrimination
There is one thing if you report suspicious behavior regardless of race, but reporting a passenger solely based on race is discriminatory. The exact details will pan out in the lawsuit, so who knows exactly what happened.