Royal Singh
Prime VIP
Sunday night he was taking a flight back from San Francisco to Toronto and was stopped by security and ordered into additional screening. Now this is nothing new to him, as he is a brown dude who flies quite often and these types of extra screening and searching are regular occurrences. In this specific case however he was asked to remove his turban so it could go through an additional extra check, his first inclination was to say nah, he had a flight to catch and taking off a turban and tying it back on before a flight would be inconvenient. He asked to have a pat down instead (he get his clothes patted down, and those too are made of cloth, never asked to remove those) the manager insisted that either he would take off his turban and or he would be escorted back into the public area and he could book a flight with a different airline or airport. They provided a private screening room, and after they had done a complete body search and scanned his turban through another x-ray. they came back and told him, he was good to go.
It was at this point he asked for a mirror to retie his turban again, because unlike a hat or a shoe, tying a turban back on takes time and skill (great skill, only the manliest of men know) plus he gotta make sure look extra crispy and good ALWAYS (his motto in life, most of the time when not lazy of course). The officials responded that they don't provide mirrors and one of them had even told him to walk down the nearest bathroom at the other end of the terminal, in public, without turban on. Which completely defeats the purpose of being in a private room in the first place... why "undress" and then tell him to walk out "undressed" to the nearest bathroom to retie my turban again? The turban is a sign of royalty, respect, dignity, courage and has a huge significance for my people.
He followed all the security protocols, asked whatever they wanted to do, the issue isn't JUST with the fact that he was asked to remove the turban (however silly it still is) but with the lack of respect and insensitivity when he asked for a simple request like a mirror to tie it back on again.
Very shameful incident. It doesn't happen at Heathrow as they seek further permission to search & touch.
