LAX-bound professor who was dragged off Southwest Airlines flight says she was racially profiled - Los Angeles Times
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LAX-bound professor who was dragged off Southwest Airlines flight says she was racially profiled

Anila Daulatzai of Baltimore was taken into custody and charged with disorderly conduct, failure to obey a reasonable and lawful order, disturbing the peace, obstructing and hindering a police officer and resisting arrest. (Sept. 28, 2017)

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A woman bound for Los Angeles who was seen on video being dragged off a Southwest Airlines flight in Maryland has said she was a victim of racial profiling.

Anila Daulatzai, who is Muslim, said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday that she was mistreated after she told the crew on a Sept. 26 flight to Los Angeles that she was allergic to dogs in the cabin.

She said the crew initially agreed she could sit far away from the dogs, but later told her they were concerned about her being on the plane.

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Southwest Airlines said Daulatzai told flight attendants she had a life-threatening allergy.

Daulatzai insisted that she repeatedly and calmly explained that her allergy was not life-threatening.

Daulatzai said she thinks she was discriminated against because she was “a brown woman with a hoodie.”

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