Jan 2, 2025
WATCH: Black Woman KICKED OFF Flight After White Man Says He Feels Threatened
WATCH: Black Woman KICKED OFF Flight After White Man Says He Feels Threatened
- 13 minutes
It happened.
Black women kicked off a flight because
a passenger said he felt threatened.
I'm going to give you
a portion of the video.
Here it is.
But make up stuff. About what?
Absolutely not.
[00:00:15]
But make up stuff about what? What did.
What could have possibly happened
that made this happen?
Okay. Stop doing that.
No, because we didn't do anything
to be kicked off the plane.
- We were.
- Never rude.
We never got on to anyone or did anything.
So what is that?
[00:00:31]
What is. Why would that even happen?
- Who is they?
- The captain and the flight attendant.
Her? They discussed it.
And if the crew decides you can't go,
you can't go.
We don't know anything
that happened at all.
I'm just letting them show me.
[00:00:48]
The guy in the front said no,
I don't want to do what no one did.
We don't even know what happened.
But if they put their hands on me,
I'm calling the cops.
- Well, he.
- Already said so.
- Go ahead.
- Baby, did you get my.
I got the backpack.
Are you fucking serious right now?
I never spoke to him.
I never said anything to him.
[00:01:08]
I'm going to give you the back story
as to what led up to this event.
Here's some of it.
And when I got on the flight,
I put my backpack under my front seat
and the flight attendant asked me
to move my backpack.
I said, that's fine.
[00:01:25]
I can put it above me
if there's any more space up there.
So I got up and I said,
if I can move this bag over,
then I can fit my bag right here.
And I touched the bag above me,
and the guy next to me got up and yelled
at me and said, do not touch my bag,
do not touch my stuff.
[00:01:43]
And I said, okay, like I'm sorry.
The guy started whispering
to his wife next to me
and he got up and he said, I'm threatened.
I feel threatened, and he yelled
at the people that worked on the the plane
and told them that he felt threatened
and that he felt uncomfortable.
[00:02:00]
He said that it was a race thing
and that he felt threatened because he's
white and I'm black, and that I mentioned
something racist towards him,
although I never spoke to him
or even said anything out loud, and they
pulled me and my partner off of the flight
and they said, oh, it's a race thing.
[00:02:20]
They went first class, by the way.
Put up the picture for mass.
I have much detail to this story.
A black female passenger in first class
claimed that she was kicked off
an American Airlines flight.
Here we go again with American Airlines
because a white male
[00:02:37]
allegedly felt racially threatened.
The woman recently posted multiple videos
about her experience on TikTok
under her account at Lovergirl.
Magic.
One video shows the moment she and her
girlfriend were booted from the flight.
[00:02:56]
Another shows her brief encounter
with a white male passenger,
who allegedly told the flight crew
that he felt threatened after she
touched his bag in an overhead bin.
[00:03:11]
Naturally.
First class or not? First class.
When you are on a flight,
your bag may get touched,
especially when it comes to finding room.
And if the person the passenger
does not move it over to the left
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or to the right, or maybe to the back.
A flight attendant will in order
to accommodate group travel.
So she stated that she and a partner
boarded the flight
with first class tickets.
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When she made it to her seat, she put her
backpack under the seat in front of her,
but a flight attendant requested she
used space in one of the overhead bins.
She found space in the overhead
bin above her seat and attempted to move
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another passenger's belongings
to make room for her backpack.
I touched the bag above me,
and the guy next to me got up and yelled
at me and said, do not touch my bag.
Do not touch my stuff. End quote.
[00:04:20]
At that point, a flight attendant
offered to move her backpack
to a different overhead bin.
She agreed to move her bag
as long as it was in a nearby bin
within her line of sight,
since it carried valuable tech products.
[00:04:38]
After her belongings were moved,
she said she saw the man
who yelled at her, whispered something
to a woman seated next to him before
loudly broadcasting, I'm threatened.
I feel threatened.
[00:04:57]
Now.
I believe the woman who posted the video.
I believe her narrative.
I believe possibly the whisper
was the conspiracy.
Go along with it. Follow my lead.
[00:05:13]
She recalled hearing the man tell
the flight crew that he felt threatened
and uncomfortable because she did not
place her backpack near his belongings.
[00:05:31]
Adding the claim that race was a factor
in her decision to move her bag.
Quote.
He said that it was a race thing
and that he felt threatened
because he's white and I'm black,
and that I mentioned something racist
towards him, although I never spoke to him
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or even said anything out loud
other than I didn't want my bad.
I didn't want my bag
to be next to people I did not know.
Once again,
back to the line of sight dynamic.
She said the flight crew immediately
booted her off the flight, told her she
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was being removed because the male
passenger reported he was threatened, even
though she never said anything to him.
Quote.
They pulled me and my partner
off the flight
and they said, oh, it's a race thing.
It's a race thing.
And I asked, what's the race problem?
[00:06:24]
If there's a race thing, it should
be against me more than anything.
End quote.
Now, if that's all it takes,
I want I want to post something.
I want to pose a question.
Do you believe
that if she would have said, hey,
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I believe this person has threatened me?
Do you think the flight crew,
without question,
do they take him and his travel companion
off of that plane and say, well, somebody
said you you threatened them, you see?
[00:06:59]
I haven't seen it happen that way.
They did this according
to the allegation, without question.
She said a flight attendant
told her verbatim, verbatim that the issue
was, quote, a race thing, a race.
Thing, and that she repeatedly asked
for clarification about the racial.
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Factor in her removal. Quote.
And so they kicked me off the flight
and my partner off the flight,
and they pushed me.
They physically pushed me off the flight,
and they just kept saying,
oh, it's a race thing.
End quote.
The woman also questioned whether she
should call the police over the situation.
[00:07:35]
Quote, I never spoke to anyone on the
flight other than the flight attendant.
When I asked her
if I could move my bag somewhere.
Please tell me what race has to do
with me being on a flight, she explained.
The male passenger just jumped up
and said I was threatened.
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Although no one threatened him,
no one talked to him.
He lied. No one ever talked to him.
And all of a sudden
there was a race problem.
Now let me tell you why I believe
that no one threatened him.
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This is my personal belief
because the threat, the nature
of the threat was never articulated.
If there's a threat,
the threat is this person said they were
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going to do A, B and or C to me.
Okay.
Now you have articulated
the nature of the threat.
To simply say somebody threatened me, but
there's no articulation of what the threat
is, no question about the threat itself,
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no investigation if a threat happened.
No threat on record at all is a problem.
There's more.
Put it up. If you remember last year.
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Three black men we just reported
on the update of this
were booted from American Airlines
after a passenger complained that the
black men Had a foul odor on the plane.
They didn't know each other. Okay.
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The men filed a racial discrimination
lawsuit with the airline,
and that lawsuit settled last month.
The airline employees involved
in the incident were also suspended
from their positions because of their
actions last year, if you recall.
[00:09:31]
Retired Judge Pamela E Hill ville,
we had her on the show.
The judge spoke with us about the incident
in which American Airlines,
a male flight attendant, told her
to use her rear to use the rear restroom.
[00:09:51]
She was in first class,
also used the real restroom despite being
in first class, and then falsely
accused the judge of assaulting him
and tried to get her arrested.
You know why she did not get arrested?
Because when the police arrived
to arrest her, they were able to determine
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she did not assault anyone,
gave her a we apologize.
There's no issue here.
And she continued to move forward.
She never assaulted anybody.
She simply, simply was in first class
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with her husband and another passenger
who needed attention.
It was another passenger
who was elderly and needed attention,
and they wanted to make sure they remained
close to that other passenger,
and they did not move
when they were asked, hey, can you move
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to make way for this other person
who wants to be in first class?
The husband said, no.
Yeah, it's a courtesy.
If they want to move, they can.
They don't have to.
They will ask.
And that's when the conflict started.
Once again,
American Airlines put up the CEO.
[00:11:04]
American Airlines CEO Robert
Isom Buck stops with him now.
One incident,
possibly an employee related dynamic.
Two.
You're starting to get systemic. 34567.
[00:11:23]
You have a culture problem.
You have a problem in your culture.
Alright Ben thoughts here.
I mean doc I feel threatened
by you calmly reading this story.
You know.
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It would make me comfortable
if you were removed from your own show
because this is not acceptable.
I mean, that's exactly the evidence
this person presented.
That insanity.
There wasn't even
the allegation of a threat.
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There was the allegation
of feeling threatened.
Well, you can't invalidate
someone's feelings, I feel threatened.
Not only do they not outline
the specific threat,
they don't even say there was a threat.
They didn't say that the person
offered a threat there.
They just. They feel threatened.
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Maybe that person just feels threatened
by the presence of black people.
So therefore black people
should be removed from flights.
I mean, you know, it almost seems
like the only course of action until our
society corrects itself that people
in this situation who are the targets
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of racism and discrimination can face,
can, can, can take.
Rather is when someone says
something like I feel threatened,
immediately reply I feel threatened
and just create almost a standoff where
now it's more clear the racial bias of
the staff and of the airline, because now
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you got equal accusations going both ways.
It sucks that this is the way
you have to maybe think, but yeah, we do
not live in a society that is, doling out
its situations, any sort of fair manner.
Yeah.
And you make a great point,
because if they would have said,
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listen, we feel threatened.
You don't get a stalemate,
you don't get a stalemate.
You still get the same outcome, which
proves the weighing of the bias here.
All right.
We'll bring you updates as they come.
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