Claiming that her clothing sported a “threatening” message, a Marine Corps veteran with over 20 years of service to our country was forced by an airline employee to disrobe in public and don another piece of apparel before being allowed to reboard her flight, she says.
via KNTV:
A Bay Area veteran said she was shocked and humiliated after being kicked off a Delta flight at San Francisco International Airport because of a T-shirt she was wearing.
Catherine Banks was set to fly out of SFO on Wednesday before a flight attendant told her the shirt she wore was threatening.
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“A male flight attendant was saying, ‘Ma’am, ma’am.’ I looked around, like, ‘Who was he talking to?’ And it was me. He said, ‘You need to get off the plane,’ and I was like, ‘What did I do?'” [Catherine] Banks said.
It wasn’t until she got off the plane and on the jet bridge when the flight attendant told her why she was asked to deplane.
Banks explained that when “[h]e said that shirt [she was] wearing is threatening,” all she could manage was disbelief:
I said, “Are you kidding me? I’m a Marine Corps vet. I’m going to see my Marine sister. I’ve been in the Marine Corps for 22 years and worked for the Air Force for 15 years. I’m going to visit her.”
The employee wasn’t moved by her words, she said:
He said, “I don’t care about your service, and I don’t care about her service. The only way you’re going to get back on the plane is if you take it off right now.”
And what was the allegedly “threatening” message? “Do Not Give In To The War Within. End Veteran Suicide”