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I mean this guy was working in Venture Capital? Probably not hurting for cash. This seems like clear-cut profiling + law enforcement paranoia and inability to de-escalate things.

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VCs are not necessarily wealthy at all. Only partners get real equity share (carry) and those can take 10+ years to return if at all.

The 1% management fee gives most employees like a normal tech salary, which after cost of living and taxes is pretty slave.

Agree on all the law enforcement spaghetti fucking up of course but this would never happen to an actual wealthy person.

And just plain over-resourcing. Doesn’t seem clear why so many different people from different agencies were required.

In a twisted way, the agents' behavior is actually kind of rational if you think about it. They prefer false positives to false negatives because the cost of a false negative is a successful terrorist attack, whereas the cost of a false positive is an annoyed traveler.

The cost of many false negatives is an overall worse quality of life for everyone, especially for targeted groups, and the enactment of a massive surveillance apparatus to enforce that QoL degradation.

which is the stated end goal of many a terrorist organisation.

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