Source: NC NAACP / NC NAACP
ABC-11 reports that NC – NAACP President William Barber was removed from a flight in Washington D.C. Friday night and that there are concerns as to why he was asked to de-board the plane. The incident happened a little after 10pm at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
American Airlines Flight 5382 was scheduled to take off for Raleigh-Durham International around 10:20 p.m. when a spokesperson with the airlines told ABC11 that prior to departure, the captain called for the flight to return to the gate for a disruptive passenger.
Barber said he was returning from a national interfaith event in Washington, D.C. where he was the keynote speaker and was tired as he boarded the plane and had sat down in the two seats he purchased due to a bone fusion arthritic disability.
He said he requested a flight attendant to ask a man sitting behind him to not speak so loudly.”But as she left, I heard him saying distasteful and disparaging things about me,” he said in the statement. “He had problems with “those people” and he spoke harshly about my need for “two seats,” among other subjects.”
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