Muhammad Ali Jr. was again detained at the airport — on the way to a meeting about his first detention

Muhammad Ali Jr.
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Muhammad Ali Jr., the son of legendary boxing champion Muhammad Ali, was detained and questioned by airport security agents for the second time, his lawyer said Friday. Ali Jr. was traveling to meet with lawmakers about his first such detention when he was pulled aside by Department of Homeland Security officials and kept from boarding his plane for 20 minutes.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who happened to be on the same flight, tweeted her outrage.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.