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Juliette Beegle, an autistic teenager from Oregon was kicked off a United Airlines flight last week because the pilot feared she could pose a potential "safety threat" to the crew and fellow passengers.  Juliette's mother, Donna Beegle says she was mistreated by the flight crew after asking them to provide hot food for Juliette.  Mrs. Beegle says she asked for hot food because Juliette was becoming irritable and wanted her to eat in hopes of calming her down. According to mom, the reason her meal needed to be hot food is because Juliette has very severe sensory issues and that is the only way she will consume food.  The family insists they did everything they could to prevent a behavior by Juliette and were simply asking for a small accommodation given their child's disability.  Ultimately, in a begrudging manner the hot food plate was served to Juliette and the flight attendants said enough to the pilot that unbeknownst to the Beegle family, the pilot
 made an emergency landing to kick the Beegle family off the plane by police escort.

During this episode of the "Thompson & Espinosa", we speak to Donna Beegle about this humiliating experience and why the flight crew interpreted the needs of a special needs child as a public safety risk!  The chain of events during this incident raises the question over the treatment and misunderstanding of individuals with developmental/neurological disorders like Autism.  I believe United Airlines should not only apologize to the family publicly, but they should also suspend the pilot and flight attendants involved and require they undergo training on how to deal with people with disabilities, focusing specifically on behavioral outbursts to avoid any misunderstandings.  The Beegle plans to sue United Airlines, they say they do not want money but rather a formalized mandatory training to include special needs passengers to avoid this type of unnecessary humiliation in the future.


United Airlines Autism Discrimination

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