PERSON: Avi Mandel

A Baltimore County man said he was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for not wearing a mask while eating Twizzlers and wants to share his story in the hopes things will change.

Avi Mandel said he was a frequent Southwest flyer until his flight Sunday out of Thurgood Marshall Baltimore Washington International Airport.

He showed WJZ a selfie video he made during the flight, in which he said, “I, Avi Mandel, just got kicked off a plane because I wasn’t wearing my mask in between bites while I was eating.”

“That’s so sad. That’s so wrong,” Mandel told WJZ. “It was absurd. The way I was treated was absolutely absurd. It was crazy and it wasn’t fair.”

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