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Three Black men have filed a lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging it forced them and several other Black male passengers to deboard after a white flight attendant complained of body odor.
A group of Black men are suing American Airlines after allegedly being removed from a plane due to an unidentified body odor.
Three of the eight black men allegedly ejected from the flight in January accused the airline of ""racial profiling"" all black passengers onboard.
Xavier Veal, of Queens, and Emmanuel Jean Joseph and Alvin Jackson, both from Brooklyn, did not know each other when they and the other 5 black men on their flight were ordered to get off a JFK-bound flight, their federal lawsuit said.
They were eventually allowed back on the flight after being kicked off