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DONKEY: American Airlines Accuses Singer David Ryan Harris Of Trafficking His Own Children · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Start for donkeys to day. I mean trying to be
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  Speaker 1: donky today.
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  Speaker 2: No more. They should be embarrassed by what they already did.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not making new people do these days called Donkey
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  Speaker 2: of the day, and it really caught me off guard.
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  Speaker 2: Damn Charlamagne, who got the Donkey o the Day today? Well,
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  Speaker 2: just hilarious donkey today for Wednesday, October fourth, coas the
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  Speaker 2: American Airlines. Now, if you haven't heard, there is a singer,
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  Speaker 2: a boy the name of David Ryan Harris. He's an
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  Speaker 2: American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He's got some albums out,
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  Speaker 2: but most importantly, he's a father and a husband. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: no greater role for a man, no greater position for
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  Speaker 2: a man to be in than being a father and
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  Speaker 2: a husband. When God blesses us with a family, dropping
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  Speaker 2: the clues bond for all the brothers out there that
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  Speaker 2: got families, and American Airlines totally violated.
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  Speaker 1: This brother and his family because they accused.
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  Speaker 2: Him of trafficking, trafficking his own children.
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  Speaker 1: I can't make this kind of stuff up. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to CBSLA for the report.
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  Speaker 3: Police musician David Ryan Harris was flying from Atlanta to
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  Speaker 3: with his two sons, Truman and Hendrix. He shared in
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  Speaker 3: an Instagram post. When they got off the plane, four
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  Speaker 3: police officers were waiting for them.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently a flight attendant had called ahead with some sort
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  Speaker 4: of concern that perhaps my mixed children weren't my children.
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  Speaker 3: Harris took to social media more than a week after
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  Speaker 3: the flight because he says he never received a response
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  Speaker 3: from American Airlines Customer Service about the incident with his kids.
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  Speaker 4: We're met embarrassingly so by this AA employee and police officers.
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  Speaker 4: There were many steps as she could have taken before
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  Speaker 4: she lobbed the hand grenade of having the authorities.
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  Speaker 3: Calls, Harris shared on his social media. It wasn't until
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  Speaker 3: American Airlines saw his story on their Twitter feed that
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  Speaker 3: an agent reached out just days ago with an apology
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  Speaker 3: and ten thousand frequent flyer miles.
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  Speaker 4: I had to go through a ticket counter, I had
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  Speaker 4: to pass federal agents. It's just stopped with the federal
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  Speaker 4: agent once we get passed TSA. I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: hear from a flight attendant about what to kind of
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  Speaker 4: hunch they have.
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  Speaker 1: F your hunch.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, flying while black is such a real thing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's bad enough when you on a flight and you
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  Speaker 2: in first class and you black. You know, if folks
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  Speaker 2: don't know who you are. Depending on your height, they
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  Speaker 2: ask if you play basketball?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it depends. I didn't say they did, did it?
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  Speaker 1: I ain't say nothing by me? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Depending on your bill, they ask if you play football
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  Speaker 2: or box. I've been asked that before. Live, okay, cap
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they assume you're a rapple, all right.
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  Speaker 1: That's why.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes when I'm on the plane and people are saying
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  Speaker 2: what's up to me? As they get on, it's always
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  Speaker 2: some old caucasun asking what I do. I tell them
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  Speaker 2: I'm a world famous proctologist. Over fifty billion colon rectum
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  Speaker 2: and anus is served. Then I say are you having
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  Speaker 2: any digestive issues? They always reply, you're a pretty popular proctologist.
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  Speaker 1: So it's bad enough we have to go through that
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  Speaker 1: kind of profile.
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  Speaker 2: And but to be a black man in America, to
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  Speaker 2: be traveling with your kids, biracial or otherwise and get
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  Speaker 2: accused of trafficking man, Embarrassing is not a strong enough word.
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  Speaker 2: How traumatized it is it for you and the kids? Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what about these kids? I would like to know, cause
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  Speaker 2: you to think this man was trafficking? Were they crying?
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  Speaker 2: Did they look like they were in distress? What was
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  Speaker 2: the signs that you saw that made you react like
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  Speaker 2: this because there had to be signs, because there were
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  Speaker 2: no legitimate sign or signs other than skin color.
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  Speaker 1: Then guess what sign you see the most in your head?
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  Speaker 1: Whites only? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Now, the good brother David Ryan Harris, he went on
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  Speaker 2: Instagram live and he asked some things to say.
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  Speaker 4: There are all sorts of laws on books that I
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  Speaker 4: can't believe exist, and there are some things that I
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  Speaker 4: think that should be laws that are not currently. One
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  Speaker 4: of those things being the fact that children don't currently
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  Speaker 4: have to show identification to fly with a parent or guardian.
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  Speaker 4: In the United States, local DMVs will allow you to
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  Speaker 4: get a state issue ID for miners under the age
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  Speaker 4: of eighteen, provided you have proper documentation of guardianship. I
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  Speaker 4: think implementing a law like this will go a long
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  Speaker 4: way in terms of eradicating child trafficking, particularly on commercial airlines,
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  Speaker 4: and it would also keep scenarios like the scenario that
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  Speaker 4: happened to my family and I from occurring in the
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  Speaker 4: first place.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we need some laws change because we need something
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  Speaker 2: to eradicate child trafficking, but it also will reduce the
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  Speaker 2: cases of being profiled, because yes, flying while black is
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  Speaker 2: a real thing. Is a real thing. Okay, it's a
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  Speaker 2: real thing. When my oldest daughter was younger, that happened
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  Speaker 2: to me. The staff came over and asked if that
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  Speaker 2: was my daughter, then asked her if I was her father,
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  Speaker 2: I replied, I hope. So.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, do y'all know something I don't know? All right,
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  Speaker 1: American Airlines?
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  Speaker 2: You can't just assume white kids, bi racial kids with
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  Speaker 2: a black man are in danger.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I guess all these commercials and ads that are politically
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  Speaker 2: correct that have all these interracial, mixed race couples, I
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  Speaker 2: guess those aren't helping the damn thing, because nobody should
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  Speaker 2: be alarmed when they see.
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  Speaker 1: A black man with biracial kids.
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  Speaker 2: And it's the principle we know, we not this is
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  Speaker 2: only happening because David Ryan Harris is black. Okay, y'all
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  Speaker 2: don't want us to play the race card, But what
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  Speaker 2: else we're supposed to play?
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  Speaker 1: HUO. And that is what's.
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  Speaker 2: Always so frustrating about these topics, because we know what
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  Speaker 2: it is, and it pisses you off having to act
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  Speaker 2: like you don't know what it is simply because you
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  Speaker 2: can't prove what it is. Okay, And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if this happens to other races. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: white people traveling with adopted black little babies the way
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  Speaker 2: whatever he gets tell you was saying back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: get the same treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, American Airlines did apologize, all right, they said, to
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  Speaker 2: summarize our investigation, we and our flight attendant realized that
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  Speaker 2: our policies regarding suspected human trafficking were not followed, and
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  Speaker 2: through coaching and counseling, our flight attendant realizes that their
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  Speaker 2: interaction and observations did not meet the criteria that human
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  Speaker 2: trafficking was taking place. Our flight attendant in question wanted
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that you are aware that they sincerely
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  Speaker 2: offer a heartfelt apology to you and your family for
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  Speaker 2: the actions and the results that their actions generating. Nope,
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  Speaker 2: that's not gonna cut it. I need college to wish
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  Speaker 2: it for my biracial children, all right, for the emotional
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  Speaker 2: and mental pain you cast. Since y'all like to see
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  Speaker 2: color so much, how about y'all see the color green
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  Speaker 2: and cut me a check. Please give American Airlines the
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  Speaker 2: biggest he hull. Come on, man, I really don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Do we know if this happens with the white people
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  Speaker 2: traveling with black little babies.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure not black wido babies. I'm sure not black
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  Speaker 1: wittle baby. All right, well, thank you for that donkey today.
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  Speaker 1: black Widowed Babies. I don't remember that. Oh okay, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think most people do. All right, Well, goig record
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  Speaker 1: b e T We'll see. I'll lay that donkey.
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