Attorney of the United Passenger: ‘I Don’t Think This Is a Matter of Race at All’

‘I don’t think this is a matter of race at all’

REPORTER: "There was talk early on that Mr. Dao perhaps suggested that his race was an issue. Do you believe the fact that he was — that his race played into this, that he was —"
DEMETRIO: "I personally do not. I don’t think this is a matter of race at all. I’ll share with you an e-mail I got, actually late last night, from — it actually sounds like an Irishman to me on paper — who suggested that Dr. Dao was the modern-day Asian Rosa Parks. I don’t think that’s the case at all. I think what happened to Dr. Dao could have happened to anyone of us."

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