Video Shows EasyJet Passengers Protesting Removal of Two Black Men from UK-to-Spain Flight
“No, no, no, don’t do that,” a woman said. “Don’t get off, sit down. Don’t get off.”
Gayle told the Daily Mail about the officers, “They said they were there to prevent a breach of the peace and escort two men off the plane, but as soon as the man was asked to leave he attempted to and everyone said, ‘No, sit back down again.’”
A Black man sat down and a flight attendant walked away from him.
In another video an officer shrugged at another passenger said, “There’s no need for me to interfere because there’s no problem.”
The men were permitted to stay on the plane and the captain announced that another flight crew would be replacing the one that was on aboard the aircraft.
“My faith was then restored in humanity, as the whole flight said it was unacceptable” Gayle said.
EasyJet said the crew was replaced because they had exceeded their working hours, not because of the encounter with the two men. The flight took off toward Spain three hours after its scheduled departure time.