Samantha Vitena, who suffered racism on a Gol flight, speaks out for the first time about the case.
Samantha Vitena also said she didn't understand why she had to sign a Detailed Incident Report (TCO) for resisting arrest.
247 - Professor Samantha Vitena spoke this Monday (1st) about the expulsion she suffered on a Gol Linhas Aéreas flight, when she refused to check her backpack with a notebook inside, on Friday (28), something that is, in fact, official guidance from airlines.
"I was quite shaken by this whole situation, but I have received a lot of support and encouragement. I haven't been able to respond to all the messages yet," she said during the TV Globo program Encontro.
Samantha Vitena also said that she did not understand why she had to sign a Detailed Incident Report (TCO) for resisting arrest, because she obeyed the police officers' orders and left the plane.
"When he spoke about the crime, I got up to leave and spoke to the other passengers. I asked if I had done anything to get me off the plane, and people said I hadn't done anything," he recounted.
The teacher said that many people started recording the situation and even said they wouldn't let her get off the plane alone.
"They started taking the bags out of the luggage compartment so I could get out with them. That was something that surprised me very positively, it touched me deeply, and I wanted to thank those people."
However, she said she didn't want these people to stop coming to her homes.
"The police officer told me: 'Do you want to know why? Then get off the plane and talk to the captain.' And I said: 'Okay, cool.'"
Conversation with a Federal Police delegate.
The passenger said that upon exiting the plane, she asked for the captain, but he was not there. She was then taken to the Federal Police station.
"The other police officer told me, 'You're not going to talk to the commander, come with me,' and so I went with him to the police station."
"So, at no point was there any resistance. There was questioning, and I even asked the officer if I couldn't have asked, and he told me yes, that it was my right," he said.