Gospel CEO Kerry Douglas Assaulted by JetBlue Employee

Houston, TX: Less than a month after JetBlue flight attendant, Steven
Slater, spewed profanities at passengers on a plane as it landed at
New York’s Kennedy Airport, another JetBlue employee has had a
meltdown. This past Friday, Black Smoke Music Worldwide CEO, Kerry
Douglas, one of the most successful executives in the gospel music
industry, says that a JetBlue employee at Houston’s Hobby Airport
assaulted him.

Douglas was scheduled for a 7 a.m. flight to New York where he was
staging a Sirius Satellite Radio concert around his Top 10 Billboard
Hot Gospel Songs single, “I Believe” (By James Fortune, Zacardi
Cortez, and Shawn McLemore), on Friday afternoon. Douglas checked-in
from his home computer and was about to pass his suitcase to a baggage
handler around 6:31 a.m. when a JetBlue attendant told him that he was
too late for his luggage to accompany the flight.

“This man deliberately tried to provoke me in order to get me
arrested,” Douglas says. “I asked what could be done about my luggage
and he said nothing could be done. I took my cell phone out and told
the attendant that I was going to record him. That is when he slapped
my cell phone from my hand and damaged it when he flung it away from me.

He then took off and ran away from me. I was at a loss for words to
say and felt very disrespected. I then called the police and filed a
report (HPD INC# 122286910V).”

The incident caused Douglas to miss his New York flight. He then
called JetBlue’s corporate office to file a complaint but no one from
JetBlue apologized.  “Had I raised my hands at this JetBlue employee,
I am sure I would have been arrested. He assaulted me and was allowed
to return to work to assault the next customer.  JetBlue needs to do a
better job in the area of customer relations."