LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southwest Airlines apologized Tuesday to the Cal women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb after she claimed an airline employee stopped her from boarding because the worker didn’t believe her 1-year-old biracial son was hers.
A desk agent questioned Gottlieb ahead of a flight from Denver to Oakland Sunday, saying she "had to ‘prove’ that he was my son, despite having his passport," Gottlieb said in a series of tweets.
"She said because we have different last name. My guess is because he has a different skin color," Gottlieb tweeted Monday. The head coach from the University of California, Berkeley was traveling with her fiance, Patrick Martin, the boy’s father, who is black.