Olympic sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson posted a series of videos that she claims prove an American Airlines flight attendant harassed her.
Still, the way her fellow passengers cheered during her removal from the flight seems to show few agreed with her complaints.
The embattled Olympian posted her video to Instagram in which she immediately accused a flight attendant of “harassing” her when he walked by and let her know it was time to turn electronic items off because the plane was preparing to take off.
“I’m recording me, but you jumped in my video, so I caught you because you jumped in my video. You’re harassing me at this point, so I think you should stop. I think you should stop,” Richardson said in the video.
#shacarririchardson gets kicked off a flight when the flight attendant told her to get off a phone call and put her phone on airplane mode. She started recording a video, refused to stop, yelled at the attendant, abused passengers and the whole flight applauded as she left. pic.twitter.com/Og3OGRcXPw
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In a second video, Richardson posted to her Instagram account. She is seen engaging in a long discussion with the flight crew as they tell her that the captain wants her removed from the flight. Richardson continues to insist she did nothing wrong and felt harassed because the flight attendant “jumped in my video” and put his hand in her face.
She even curses at some of her fellow passengers when they express their frustration with her disruptions.
Ultimately, when she gets up to leave the plane, some of the passengers applaud her removal.
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Richardson also posted an explanation, still insisting she was in the right.
“Tell me if I’ll be wrong to pursue leg-al 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,” Richardson wrote on the post.
“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,” she continued.
“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 dis-respect I received would not have happened if I was a one of them,” she added.
“One of them even stated good luck with your b-an ( I see he took the time to do some research but not stand up for what’s right) soooo @americanair this flight attendant name was John and he refused to state his last name,” she said.
“However, him and the lady y’all see standing next to him looked me up also if I see videos posted from this flight, watch,” she wrote, concluding, “If I can help just one person not have to de-al with a situation like this with an individual like this, I’ll take the heat.”
In a statement, American Airlines said, “We reaccomodated the customer on a later flight and a member of our team has reached out to learn more,” NBC reported.
Richardson has repeatedly assigned a motive of “racism” to things she does not like. And in 2021, she was handed a suspension from competition after she tested positive for marijuana in her system, causing her results for the Olympic trials to be erased.
Richardson was later left off the U.S. Olympic team in Track and Field.
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She was showing her character, like they all do, loud mouth Ninja
Sha’Carri be sha’kicked off de sha’plane.
There are several claims in the article that are not supported by the video so I would not make a call on who is at fault here. The passenger was clearly upset, so who can say?
Although I don’t agree w/ her actions however I understand where shes coming from. Asfrican Americans we suffer so many abused, micro-agressions and disrespect that sometimes we have just had enough. He approached at a momohe had just had her fill. And while I don’t think this was racist on the flight attendants part(he was just trying to do his job) I do believe there was a way he could have deesculated the situation.
We aseticans whether African American or not have to realize that 400+ years of actual racism in this country have led us to where we are. Until this nation deals w America original sin, slavery we will continue to have this kind of situation where AA’s overreact to minor slights and Caucasiansbtake things to a level that doesn’t need to happen. They were both in the wrong. Two wrongs don’t make a right though but on an airplane it is a federal law that you cannot interfere with the normal operation of the flight crew. You can be changed federally and banned from flying in the US every. The fact that American accommodated Shacarti on another flight indicates that they no this incident could and maybe should have been handled differently but in this case they gave Ms. Robertson the benefit of the doubt.
So she need to just let this go.
I would recommend she get some therapy to enable her not to overreact when this like this happens because it hurts her more than anyone else.
typical, pull the race card
Black fatigue is real. Her race card has expired as well. Buh bye beyotch…
I would have applauded, too. And I would have also sent a letter commending the flight attendant for his patience and the pilot for his decision.