2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
After attending a conference in Detroit, a couple went to the airport to return to their home in Los Angeles but they assure that they were victims of discrimination. Socorro García and Melissa Elmira Yingst are both deaf and arrived at the Delta counter on Sunday to ask to be seated together during the flight. When they arrived at the plane's departure gate, a Delta employee allegedly ignored her request. The couple expressed their outrage in a video they shared on Facebook. Yingst says she explained her situation to the employee by writing a message on her iPhone, but the travel agent allegedly turned her eyes around, adds García, who is the founder of the anti-discrimination group Alma de Muxeristas.
Yingst then asked the employee to write her what the problem was. According to her, at first she refused but then wrote to her that the flight was full and they could not change their seats. "I wanted to continue communicating and I tried to try to write that on the same paper, but instead of giving us the paper as we asked, she crumpled it up and threw it in the trash," Garcia said.
An airline representative told PEOPLE that the employee had originally tried to communicate with Garcia and Yingst using the Notepad application and writing on a piece of paper, and that she threw the paper away because she thought they had nothing more to communicate."
Yingst - who is a news reporter for DPAN. TV (the channel for the deaf and dumb) and is an activist for the rights of people with hearing disabilities - added that when she tried to remove the paper from the trash, the woman pushed her. The Delta spokeswoman alleges that one of the passengers tried to push the travel agent and another airline employee says she was a witness.
Both Garcia and Yingst deny having attempted to touch the Delta employee during the conflict. Then Yingst and the Delta employee recorded part of the interaction. "Do you want me to call the police?" Said the employee. "They cannot return here."
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