Out rapper Mykki Blanco has tweeted about a bizarre encounter with discrimination while catching a flight last week.
The trans artist claimed on Twitter that the man seated next to them on a Delta flight called the police, as he was not comfortable being so close to Blanco.
I just took a flight from Toronto to Detroit Michigan and when I woke up the gentlemen sitting next to me had the policed called
— mykki blanco (@MykkiBlanco) February 17, 2017
“He said that he was not comfortable and did not know how Delta allowed “someone like me” to board the plane with him and sit next to him,” Blanco tweeted of the encounter.
“This is REAL Delta. Then I was told by a police officer than an FBI report would be made from our “interaction”, except I did not interact.”
Blanco then said she was threatened with jail if she continued to question the police officer over what they had done wrong.
I was told I would “go to jail” if I continued to ask questions about why this police officer was giving preferential treatment to this man
— mykki blanco (@MykkiBlanco) February 17, 2017
“I was then told I could file a report myself and give ‘my side of the story’… but the entire incident itself is fabricated.”
Airline Delta publicly tweeted an apology to Blanco after being tagged in the post by the artist.
“Discrimination of any kind isn’t tolerated,” the organisation wrote.
“We love ALL of our passengers.”
Blanco described the event as the more bizarre form of homophobia they had ever encountered.
OIP Staff
