American Airlines sued for racial discrimination for removing Black men from flight
American Airlines has been hit with a racial discrimination lawsuit for temporarily removing eight Black men from a flight after a White flight attendant complained of the body odor of a passenger. The complaint filed in a federal court in Brooklyn by three of the men says they were asked to step off a flight from Phoenix to New York City in January for an hour and a half, and claims the passengers removed were clearly discriminated against because none of them smelled bad and they were all Black. The plai ...