Queer rapper Mykki Blanco took to Twitter Friday evening to describe an extremely disturbing incident that took place on his Delta flight from Toronto to Detroit. According to Blanco, he was woken up at the end of the flight by a cop who’d been called by the man sitting next to Blanco. The man’s explanation for calling the cops was pure homophobic hogwash, but the cop sided with him anyway and threatened Blanco with jail time.
I just took a flight from Toronto to Detroit Michigan and when I woke up the gentlemen sitting next to me had the policed called
— mykki blanco (@MykkiBlanco) February 17, 2017
He said that he was not comfortable and did not know how @Delta allowed “someone like me” to board the plane with him and sit next to him
— mykki blanco (@MykkiBlanco) February 17, 2017
This is REAL @Delta. Then I was told by a police officer that an FBI report would be made from our “interaction”, except I did not interact
— mykki blanco (@MykkiBlanco) February 17, 2017
I was told I would “go to jail” if I continued to ask questions about why this police officer was giving preferential treatment to this man
— mykki blanco (@MykkiBlanco) February 17, 2017
I was then told I could file a report myself and give “my side of the story”.. but the entire incident itself is fabricated
— mykki blanco (@MykkiBlanco) February 17, 2017
This is the most bizarre form of homophobia I have ever encountered
— mykki blanco (@MykkiBlanco) February 17, 2017
To Delta’s credit, despite probably getting a million angry tweets a day directed at them (almost always for far less serious shit), they did a little more than that Twitter brand thing of merely professing disbelief and sympathy, and actually asked Blanco to slip into their DMs to provide more information