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vendredi 26 novembre 2021

Racial profiling-Malicious Prosecution-Police Brutality -Atef Bandary-Delta Airlines DL 1105 Part 1 https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/c... https://medium.com/@alprince093 https://www.atefbandary.com/press.php# https://www.pinterest.com/alprince557... On may, 29th 2015 , I was flying back from Argentina after a vacation and lot of dental work which was very cheaper than doing it in United States. I flew by Delta Airlines, the flight was going from Buenos Aires , Argentina To Atlanta, Georgia To Salt Lake City, Utah to Palm Springs, CA. On the way from Atlanta to Salt Lake City , in the very beginning of the flight , a pilot who worked for Jet Blue, which is a co-partner of Delta Airlines , who was sitting in the back of the plane as Undercover , once he saw me walking to the restroom , he went directly to the flight attendants and told them that I looked like a terrorist and had them checking me up in the passenger manifest, then when he found that I had an Arabic name , He asked them to do back ground check on me, they found that there was nothing against me , but still they were suspicious about me , I was followed around every time I went to the bathroom , and I was followed every time I walked to check on my roommate who was sitting in the middle of the , and I was sitting at the back of the Plane , This Pilot who accused me that I looked like a terrorist , he spread the rumor all over the plane , and had some of the passengers following me as well, by the end of the flight while I was waiting at the line for the bathroom because I had diarrhea and they denied me to access the bathroom and had me soiled my pants , I was trapped by the passengers and Delta Airlines Crew , I fell on the floor of the plane then they dragged me to the back of the plane and then handcuffed me, I was restrained to my seat and by the end of the flight they called the Salt Lake City Police to remove me from the flight , then I had to rent a car to drive home from Salt lake City To Palm Springs , CA “ more than 12 hours driving” on my soiled pants. And that was not the end of the story , 6 months later I was indicted with federal charges ,and I was accused of interference with a flight crew duties which could result to 20 years in prison if I was found guilty. My life was stopped at this time from any thing but to struggle very hard to fight this. But it was not too easy for me being Egyptian and Middle Eastern to find a lawyer specially with this kind of accusation of being a terrorist , I had to go to Salt Lake City to hire a lawyer as my charges was at Salt Lake City, Utah. I hired a lawyer in Salt lake City and I had to pay him in advance $10,000.00 who told me that I had a good case and he would fight hard for me , I believed him , but when approaching my Criminal trial date , he flipped from representing me to pressuring me to plea guilty from a crime I never committed , I said no, he didn’t take my answer of NO, he sent me serial of emails , threaten me that I had to plea guilty , otherwise that I would be in prison , I challenged him and said no, and I looked for another lawyer who believed in me and helped me to win my criminal case. All what happened caused me a lot of trauma, sadness and distractions in my life for no reason , but because some racist pilot , thought that I was a terrorist just because I looked like a Middle Eastern. I am Egyptian American , a refugee , America is my country of choice . I came here 27 years ago , asylee from a society who had no Justice and lot of corruption and lot of prosecution for innocents people , I was a refugee here in America to avoid all of this , and live In freedom ,and to live the American dream. I left Egypt to escaped from corruption and abuse of power and construction of Justice, because I was afraid I might face it there in Egypt. But in spite of that , all happened to me here in America which smeared my American dream of Justice and Freedom. My message is to everyone : we are all under the same roof , all off us , all religions, all colors , why can’t we accept each other , forget about : colors, religions , races : we all have to face destiny , It’s not a good policy to bully or highlight a race or a culture,. In my opinion , the only solution that we have to accept each other

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