A lawsuit filed on behalf of three Black men alleges "blatant and egregious race discrimination" by American Airlines when they were removed from a flight.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of three Black men alleges "blatant and egregious race discrimination" by American Airlines when they were removed from a flight.
"nce they reached the jet bridge, they saw that several other Black men were also being removed from the plane. In fact, it appeared to Plaintiffs that American had orderedAmerican representatives told the men a complaint about body odour had prompted their removal, according to the suit. None of the plaintiffs were told that they personally had body odour, "and in fact none of the Plaintiffs had offensive body odour," it says.
In another video, a man comments, "This is crazy. Y'all just took like eight Black people off the plane." "Plaintiffs then had to reboard the plane and endure the stares of the largely white passengers who viewed them as the cause of the substantial delay. They suffered during the entire flight home, and the entire incident was traumatic, upsetting, scary, humiliating, and degrading," the complaint reads.
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