NAACP Calls U.S. Airways Racist for Kicking Man with Saggy Pants Off Plane
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| They must have toured by bus |
Deshon Marman, a black college football player, was ordered off a plane docked at San Francisco International Airport last week after a flight attendant objected to a rather severe level of pant-sagginess that was allegedly "below his buttocks, but above the knees." (A difficult region at which to maintain your pants, to be sure.)
Earlier this week, that decision was called into question as a photo emerged of a white man traveling on a U.S. Airways flight in nothing but women's underwear.
Amos Brown, president of NAACP's San Francisco chapter, says the decision was "unconscionable" and that Marman was "a victim of racial injustice," according to the Bay City News.
Police and airline officials have said that Marman was given the boot because of his surly attitude when airline employees approached him about his garb. He was later arrested on a felony count of assaulting a police officer and misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and trespassing after he allegedly tangled with a cop who forced him to leave the plane.
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