Lawsuit says the 8 men were not seated together and did not know each other when they were removed from the flight.
Share on linkedin American Airlines planes at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo: Robert Alexander/Getty Imagesin a lawsuit Wednesday of "blatant and egregious racial discrimination" for temporarily removing them and five other Black passengers from a flight after a complaint about body odor.states that the eight men were not seated together and did not know each other when they were removed from the Jan.
An American Airlines spokesperson said in an emailed statement on Wednesday night that the company was investigating the allegations raised in the suit, filed on behalf of Alvin Jackson, Emmanuel Jean Joseph and Xavier Veal.Representatives of American told them that they were removed from the flight because of a complaint about a Black male passenger who allegedly had offensive body odor," states the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
"None of the Plaintiffs had offensive body odor and at no time did anyone ever specifically accuse any of them of having offensive body odor," it said. "When Plaintiffs pointed out that they were being treated unfairly due to the color of their skin, at least one of the American staff members said she did 'not disagree.' Plaintiffs were told that they and the other Black male passengers would all have to be rebooked on another flight," the lawsuit continued.
"After approximately an hour, and only after determining that there were no available American flights that evening on which the men could be rebooked, American reversed course and informed Plaintiffs that they could reboard Flight 832 and fly to JFK. The whole ordeal was traumatic, upsetting, scary, humiliating, degrading, and outrageous. American's blatant profiling was malicious and racist.
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