Musician David Ryan Harris Says Airline Accused Him Of Trafficking His Own Children

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Singer-songwriter David Ryan Harris, who’s been a guitarist in John Mayer’s band for two decades, took to social media to reveal that he and his two sons were wet by police after disembarking an American Airlines flight when a flight attendant suspected he was a child trafficker and his children were his victims. “Apparently, a flight attendant had called ahead with some sort of concern that perhaps my mixed children weren’t my children, because they were unresponsive during an interaction with her,” Harris said in the first of several videos he shared on Instagram, as reported by People.

As Harris related, the flight attendant became suspicious after asking the children, their names, with one of the kids “pretty shy.” “I wanted to go through the roof, but I did not want my kids to see me handle the situation with anything other than grace and class,” Harris said of his ordeal, revealing that he and his kids, who are biracial, were allowed to leave after a discussion with the officers. READ MORE: Mike Tyson Admits He Was ‘Irritated, Tired, High’ Before Airplane Altercation: ‘S**t Happens!’ “My kids are like ‘We don’t want to fly that airline again,’” he said, noting that his son asked if he’d done something wrong, and felt as if he’d “endangered the family.” Harris believes the whole thing was racially motivated. “I don’t care what you say, if this had been a white dad/mom with 2 little black kids, they would probably been offered an upgrade, not an interrogation,” he wrote. “It seems to me that you should have to have a bit more to go on before you’re able to call the police on someone,” Harris continued. “It’s my word against her word, and she’s not even there,” he said of the flight attendant. “She didn’t even