Muhammad Ali Jr. fought round two with the feds at a Washington airport, a lawyer for the son of the legendary boxer said Friday.
Ali was stopped and questioned as he and his mother tried to board a Jet Blue flight to Florida on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported.
He’d been in Washington to speak with members of a congressional subcommittee on border security about being detained at the Fort Lauderdale airport on Feb. 7 after returning from Jamaica, according to the lawyer, Chris Mancini.
“Going to Washington obviously opened a can of worms at the [Department of Homeland Security,] Mancini told The AP.
Florida Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who formerly headed the Democratic National Committee, was on the same flight Wednesday.
She tweeted a photo with Ali after he was allowed to board and wrote: “On way home on DOMESTIC FLIGHT Muhammad Ali Jr. detained AGAIN … Religiously profiling son of ‘The Greatest’ will not make us safe.”
Ali and his mother, Khalilah Camacho Ali , were both born in the US.
They told interviewers after the first incident they believe they were singled out because they’re Muslim and have Arabic names.
