"You can't keep us in here!" the woman beside Caroline screamed. She and a hundred other people were pressed against the glass of the security doors that led out of the airport terminal. A row of thirty police officers stood on the other side of the glass, wearing white masks over their noses and mouths. Each officer had an assault rifle ready.

"I have a family!" someone else shouted, beating a fist on the glass. "You're killing us by leaving us here!"

Caroline ...