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JusReign, Indo-Canadian Sikh YouTube Star, Forced To Remove Turban At US Airport

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 23 Feb, 2016 12:14 PM

An Indo-Canadian Sikh comedian alleged that he was forced to take off his turban at the San Francisco airport during a security check, weeks after a Sikh-American actor was barred from boarding a flight in Mexico for refusing to take off his turban.

Jasmeet Singh, who's known on the internet as "JusReign," posted about the incident on Twitter, NewYork Daily reported.

so the @tsa made me take off my turban in extra screening or they said I wouldn't be able to be let through to catch my flight
— Jasmeet Singh (@JusReign) February 22, 2016

"So the (agents) made me take off my turban in extra screening or they said I wouldn't be able to be let through to catch my flight," Mr Singh tweeted.

and naturally I'm like nah I really don't wanna do that since I got a flight to catch, but the manager intervenes and says I have to
— Jasmeet Singh (@JusReign) February 22, 2016

the agent tells me there are no mirrors and that I can just walk down the terminal to the nearest restroom

so I get into the private screening and take it off and they body search me and put my turban through another X-ray machine because "safety"
— Jasmeet Singh (@JusReign) February 22, 2016

after finding absolutely nothing wrong because a turban is just cloth and the whole thing is stupid I ask for a mirror to tie it back again
— Jasmeet Singh (@JusReign) February 22, 2016

the agent tells me there are no mirrors and that I can just walk down the terminal to the nearest restroom 😶😶😶

without my turban on 😶😶😶
— Jasmeet Singh (@JusReign) February 22, 2016

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