The former Navy Seal credited with killing Osama bin Laden who was banned from Delta Air Lines after posting a selfie of him not wearing a mask on one of their planes has said the photo was a “joke”.
Mr O’Neil said he was “peacefully protesting” the “hypocrisy” of the mask policy surrounding mealtimes on the flight and that the post was a “joke”.
“I was thinking, if I can’t wear it while I’m drinking and eating, what if I’m drinking and eating the entire flight?” he said. “So I just snapped a quick selfie.”
He added: “I was just pointing out that ... you need to wear a mask to protect us all unless you’re having something to eat, and it was snack time on Delta Airlines.”
“I thought it was, you know, kind of a joke.”
The veteran had tweeted an image of himself on a flight where he was seen smiling in his seat without a mask, which has since been deleted. “I’m not a p***y,” he wrote in the caption.
The image sparked a backlash and was shared widely online spurring Delta Air Lines to ban him from future flights.
“I just got banned from @Delta for posting a picture. Wow,” Mr O’Neill wrote on Twitter, announcing the ban.
A spokesperson for Delta Air Lines previously confirmed to The Independent that Mr O’Neill has been banned from the airline.
"It's not like I blew the rules off,” Mr O’Neil said in the interview. “It got way way out of hand."
Some Twitter users assumed that the photo was a dig at a man in the background of the photo, who was wearing a USMC (United States Marine Corps) hat while wearing a mask.
Mr O’Neil restated that this was not the case. “It was not a dig at the Marine Corps. I love the Marine Corps,” he said.
The Centres for Disease Control affirms that “cloth face coverings are a critical tool in the fight against Covid-19 that could reduce the spread of the disease, particularly when used universally within communities.”
August 29, 2020 at 11:25PM
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‘I thought it was a joke’: Ex-Navy Seal responds to Delta Airlines ban over maskless selfie - The Independent
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