BLACK WOMAN KICKED OFF FLIGHT FOR WEARING ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ T-SHIRT

Imani Cezanne is escorted off plane after flight attendant says she felt ‘threatened’

A Black Lives Matter supporter says she was ejected from an American Airlines flight for simply flying while Black.

Imani Cezanne, who wore a “Black Lives Matter” t-shirt with the names of victims of police violence, said she was escorted off the Atlanta-bound flight after a flight attendant said she felt “threatened.”

“Nothing about my voice, tone, body language etc. communicated “threatening.” Other than, of course, this Black body,” Cezanne wrote in a thread of tweets explaining the incident.

Cezanne says things went left after she questioned the flight attendant after she moved a foreign couple away from their exit row seats. The flight attendant responded that passengers in the exit row must be able to speak English in order to understand procedure in case of an emergency.

When Cezanne continues to speak to the woman next to her about her “concerns,” the flight attendant, she says, asked her if she was going to “be a problem.”

“Why would she ask me that? Is that an appropriate way to speak to a customer who is calmly having a conversation with someone?” she tweeted. “What about me seemed potentially problematic? I was seated, legs crossed, hands in lap. Using my “inside voice.”

She continues:

I respond with “Are you going to be a problem? Why would you ask me that?” Then storms off to get a manager. The manager comes to escort me off of the plane. I ask why. She says “because my flight attendant feels threatened. So now I’m stuck in Charlotte. Banned from AA. And no, I do not have $400-$500 to get back home or to my destination today. This is how you can literally be walking away from an officer and be shot dead. Because he “felt threatened.”

Though a rep for American Airlines initially said there was nothing they could do for her, once her story went viral online, the airline eventually reached back out to Cezanne to resolve the matter.

The company also said it “values diversity and we do not discriminate for any reason.”