Retired Black Judge was Just Another NGHR to American Airlines’ Racist Suspect Flight Attendant who Ordered Her to the Back of the Plane
/From [HERE] A Black retired judge from Chicago said she was flying first class when an American Airlines flight attendant accused her of slamming the first-class restroom door and later directed her to use the facilities in the back of the plane.
The retired judge, Judge Pamela Hill-Veal, told NPR that the incident happened on a Feb. 10 flight from Chicago to Phoenix.
The first time that she used the first-class restroom, Hill-Veal said, the flight attendant told her that she slammed the door and should not do it again because passengers were sleeping. Hill-Veal denied slamming the door.
The second time that she used the first-class restroom, the flight attendant reprimanded her, according to Hill-Veal.
“He began to berate me by pointing his finger at me towards my face,” Hill-Veal told NPR.
She alleges that the flight attendant told her, “I told you not to slam the door … so from now on, you are to use the restroom in the back of the plane,” which was in coach.
When she used the first-class restroom a third time, Hill-Veal said, the flight attendant followed her to her seat, began to touch her and warned that she would be arrested when the plane landed. He accused Hill-Veal of hitting him and said he didn’t like the way that she was speaking to him, she said.
Hill-Veal said she never hit the flight attendant, and she thinks that the incident was racially motivated.