'Apparently a flight attendant had called ahead with some sort of concern that perhaps my mixed children weren’t my children,' Harris said in an Instagram video
— explained that he and two of his sons, Truman and Hendrix, were met at the top of the jetway by an American Airlines employee and four police officers after disembarking the plane.
“I wanted to go through the roof, but I did not want my kids to see me handle the situation with anything other than grace and class,” Harris explained. After a discussion with the staff and officers, Harris was cleared to leave. In the caption of his first post detailing the confrontation, Harris noted that American had been his airline of choice since 2004 and that he felt their actions were racially motivated.
In another series of videos posted later, Harris gave more context to the morning of the flight, sharing that his kids were groggy from waking up at 4:15 a.m. to make the 7:17 a.m. departure time. “It’s my word against her word, and she’s not even there," he recounted, referring to the flight attendant. "She didn’t even come to the top of the jetway to get her hero award, so I’m left to defend myself, based on something that at the time I was like, ‘I don’t even know what you’re talking about. My child doesn’t speak to anybody.’”“At American, the safety and security of our customers and team members are our top priorities.
While the agent couldn’t share the exact list, Harris said it was apparent one of them was the fact that his children looked at him after being asked questions by the flight attendant. Harris says the agent acknowledged, “at a very human level,” that his own children typically look at him before talking to strangers.
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