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Black musician says he was falsely accused of trafficking his own children aboard American Airlines flight

www.cbsnews.com Black musician says he was falsely accused of trafficking his own children aboard American Airlines flight

Black musician David Ryan Harris says that he was accused of trafficking his own children by a flight attendant on an American Airlines flight two weeks ago.

One of the nation's biggest airlines has been called into the spotlight after a Black father was accused of trafficking his own children on a flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles earlier in September.

David Ryan Harris, a musician who has collaborated with the likes of John Mayer, Carlos Santana and the Dave Matthews Band, recently took to social media to tell his story, and ask for people to "do better" after the incident rattled his family.

Harris says that he was aboard an American Airlines flight two weeks ago, heading to LAX with his two biracial sons, Truman and Hendrix. As they were de-boarding the plane, they found four police officers waiting for them at the gate.

"Apparently, a flight attendant had called ahead with some sort of concern that perhaps my mixed children weren't my children," Harris said in a video posted on his social media accounts. "We are met, embarrassingly so, by this AA employee and police officers. They questioned my kids."

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This is what you get when right-wingers hype child trafficking bullshit as culture war. Child trafficking is real and terrible. But it looks nothing like what the internet tells them it is. They see it everywhere because they have distorted ideas about what it is. See The Sound of Freedom

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- It's all intentional too. They want to muddy the waters, and make words like "grooming" meaningless. And they've largely succeeded.
  
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- It's fucking sad. When liberals get shit wrong, it's embarrassing. You worry about it delegitimizing real situations. You question what led to where you are now. It's a big deal.
  
  Conservatives just double or triple down. Fuck the real victims. Fuck the falsely accused. Fuck getting better. Fuck shame.
  
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  Also when could conservatives get things wrong, it's usually on purpose.
  
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- See The Sound of Freedom
  
  I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request.
  
  Means "no".
  
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  See as in example, not endorse. I now realize my poor choice of words.
  
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Even if they weren't his children, that still doesn't mean they're being trafficked. What kind of mental gymnastics does someone have to do to reach that conclusion? All because their skin color didn't match? In 2023?? Man fuck American Airlines! I will never fly with them anymore. Not that they were good to begin with.

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- If you're boycotting airlines for being shitty, you should probably just drive.
  
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  We need more trains. Trains are a solution.
  
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  I'm not the person you spoke to, but I do. If it's less than two days of driving, I will do that rather than put up with flying.
  
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Do flight attendants have, like, a duty to report? Do they get training on how to spot human trafficking? Is this just some twat waffle trying to be the hero in their own story?

I'm getting off on the next stop.

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- Yes, American Airlines employees have human trafficking spotting training.
  
  https://www.aa.com/i18n/customer-service/about-us/combating-human-trafficking.jsp?anchorEvent=false&from=footer
  
  I cannot comment if it is any good.
  
  Edit: Yes, I can. It is clearly lacking.
  
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  How common is human trafficking on commercial domestic flights in the first place? Seems like it would be one of the worst travel options for traffickers, for a lot of reasons.
  
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  This is good info. Thank you!
  
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- Yes, I work for a private jet company and the FAA has mandatory training we have to take and the gist of it is, if you see something suspicious; report it. It usually doesn’t end up like this, they usually just surveil the target to get more info from what I understand.
  
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  Thanks! I have my own world view and it's lovely to know someone else can fuck up my perspective and broaden it!
  
  I appreciate ya!
  
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- I'm getting off on the next stop.
  
  Because of the duty to report?
  
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  No, they're just skiplagging.
  
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  Sorry, I could a been more clear. I don't think the flight attendant has any idea what trafficking looks like and was merely looking to become a hero in someone's story. And, I'm kinda over people fucking up good people's days.
  
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Good work Johnson! Now sprinkle some crack on him and let's go.

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Their new motto:

If you see something… be racist.

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- American ~~Airlines~~ History X
  
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Sad to see this happen to this black father. Racism likely played a role.

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- Good candidate for understatement of the year.
  
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- Gee, you think?
  
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WTF is going on with these airlines lately?

Air Canada passengers removed for refusing to sit on vomit-soiled seats

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- lately
  
  You're kidding, right?
  
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Of course it was American Airlines. Whenever you read a story about an airline doing something terrible to a passenger, odds are it will be them. I stopped flying on them a decade ago after a bad experience with power tripping flight crew, and every time I see a story like this I continue to not regret that decision.

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Sue them for making false reports. They'll stop eventually.

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Well wait.. was the musician r Kelly?

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