Originally Posted by iluv2fly
Correct. Two weeks ago at IND, Ididn't want to remove shoes and sent to secondary. After being cleared, a supervisior came by to ask me if anything was wrong. We chatted about the shoe carnival and I showed him my shoes and point-blank asked him if they fit the profile. He stated that I should not have been singled out for my shoes alone. Period.
It must just be easier for screeners and not involve using perhaps non-existent gray matter to tell everyone to take off their shoes.