{"id":308198,"date":"2017-05-15T06:31:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T05:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/african-american-family-kicked-off-jetblue-flight-over-birthday-cake\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T06:31:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T05:31:40","slug":"african-american-family-kicked-off-jetblue-flight-over-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/african-american-family-kicked-off-jetblue-flight-over-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"African American family kicked off JetBlue flight over birthday cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>An African American family has been kicked off a JetBlue flight for carrying a birthday cake that flight crew said posed a \u201csafety risk.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The incident took place at New York&#8217;s John F. Kennedy International Airport on May 3, when Cameron Burke, his wife and their two children tried to board a Las Vegas-bound flight en route to a birthday party for the mother.<\/p>\n<p>The flight crew gave the Burkes conflicting advice on where to store their birthday cake and ended up forcing them off the plane although they were fully compliant, said the family.<\/p>\n<p>A video clip from the incident shows that the Burkes were forced off the plane even after Port Authority officers showed up at the scene and saw \u201cno wrongdoing\u201d on their part.<\/p>\n<p>JetBlue confirmed Sunday that the family was asked to leave the airplane after they insisted on storing the cake in \u201cimproper\u201d places and refused to move it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe customers became agitated, cursed and yelled at the crew, and made false&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/05\/15\/521926\/US-JetBlue-Burke-Las-Vegas-United-Airlines\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An African American family has been kicked off a JetBlue flight for carrying a birthday cake that flight crew said posed a \u201csafety risk.\u201d The incident took place at New York&#8217;s John F. Kennedy International Airport on May 3, when Cameron Burke, his wife and their two children tried to board a Las Vegas-bound flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}