“Kenya’s government has offered an all-expenses-paid holiday to a 15-year-old US teenager and her family after police mistook her for Samantha Lewthwaite, the British terrorist suspect nicknamed the white widow.

The teenager was “harassed by police in Mlolongo”, outside the capital Nairobi, “on accusations of looking like” Lewthwaite, the government said.

Joseph Ole Lenku, Kenya’s interior minister, announced that “the government will sponsor a fully-paid holiday for the family” to make up for the incident and that police were also investigating.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from David Smith / The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/kenya-offers-fully-paid-holiday-us-teenager-samantha-lewthwaite