LONDON (AP) — Ryanair has faced criticism after a video posted online apparently showed the airline’s crew failing to take action to remove a passenger who launched a racist tirade against a fellow traveler.
The video, uploaded to social media by Briton David Lawrence, showed a man hurling racist insults at an elderly black woman sitting in the same row and demanding she move seats onboard a flight from Barcelona to London on Friday.
It wasn’t clear what had prompted the quarrel. Lawrence told ITV the man abused both the woman and her daughter, but flight attendants failed to eject him from the flight.
The budget airline tweeted Sunday that it had seen the footage and reported the incident to police. It didn’t provide further comment.
Statement: We are aware of this video and have reported this matter to Essex Police
— Ryanair (@Ryanair) October 21, 2018
Speaking of dumb white guys!
Most of those characters look like they’re far past their street-brawling years and need to have antifa matched to them in weight and age classes.
Welcome to the new normal.
Trump, UKIP, and “white nationalism” spreading across Europe.
Good thing this guy was seated in the non-tiki torch section.
It feels like the last three or five years have been a little bit eye-opening in terms perceived European cultural superiority regarding things like race relations. No, it’s not just those dumb hick Americans who have their cohort of racist trash. European societies also have their cohort of racist trash!
This wasn’t really a satisfying realization. It was nice to dream that there were majority/plurality-white societies which had evolved beyond having racist trash.
Didn’t Rosa Parks already put this crap to rest?