‘Unjustified Display of Security Theater’: Two Black Alaska Airlines Passengers Were Speaking and Texting In Arabic, One Complaint Saw Them Removed from the Flight. Lawsuits Follow.
Two men are suing employees of an airline they say violated their civil rights in 2020. Both individuals, Black, Muslim, and American citizens, were removed from the flight because they were texting in Arabic. Alaska Airlines (Wikipedia Commons) On Tuesday, Aug. 2, Abobakkr Dirar and Mohamed Elamin filed a federal lawsuit in the United States…
