Photo Credit: Sha’carri Richardson/Instagram
Olympic track star Sha’Carri Richardson found herself on the wrong side of American Airlines staff today when she was removed from an airplane after she says the attendant was being rude to her while she was on the phone before takeoff. She posted a video of the incident including her arguing with multiple other passengers where she was explaining the steward was the problem and not her.
“Prior to the video this gentleman asked me to get off a cell phone call, I did,” Richardson captioned one of her videos. “I stated to him I didn’t like the tone he used with me. Following that while standing in front of me doing the safety protocols he continued to lean over to look at my phone. He asked to see that my phones were in airplane more at this point. He demanded that me show him. Which I did in front of him.”
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Richardson showed the flight attendant asking her to stop recording where she let him know that the video had nothing to do with him. “I’m recording me but you jumped in my video, so I caught you, because you jumped in my video,” she told the flight attendant. “You’re harassing me at this point, so I think you should stop. I think you should stop.”
And when multiple passengers told her to stop arguing, she replied “Y’all see him right? Y’all see him right? Y’all see him right? I’m sorry, it’s not me. Talk to him. No ma’am. Do no talk to me like that. I’m an adult. Do not talk to me like that. Do not talk to me like that. Tell him to stop. If you do not know what’s going on, do not yell at me.”
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Richardson went on to say she felt the attendant should have been thrown off the plane as well when another passenger can be heard saying, “Thank you, by the way, I’m going to miss my connection, I have to now get off the plane.” She responded, “Oh, so you’re worried about a connection when a grown man is disrespecting me?” And they replied, “I don’t give a s–t.”
And in the end, Richardson was hauled off of the plane to applause to which she argued on her entire way out. She further wrote about the ordeal saying, “Tell me if I’ll be wrong to pursue legal actions against the airline @americanair not only did the man threaten me but also an innocent bystander who simply just wanted a picture with me. In the beginning of the video you can hear a Caucasian male state that he doesn’t give a f as a man that male flight attendant is intimidating a woman,” Richardson posted. “Also the captain not doing anything to help the situation and this flight attendant has the applause when I exited the plane when I’m pretty serious the disrespect I received would not have happened if I was a one of them.”
NFL player Odell Beckham commented on her Instagram post sympathizing pointing out he had a similar situataion before writing “TELLL ME U GIT KICKED OFFF THE AMERICAN FLIGHT FOR NO REASON,” adding laughing emojis. He said in another comment, “ WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIINITTTTTTTTT. BUTTT IM THE ASSSSHOLE.” It was November when he was removed from an American Airlines flight for not following safety protocal when in reality he was just asleep and in and out of consciousness when a flight attendant was simply being overzealous. More details will be shared as they come.
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