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“I’m not going to sit down until this person is off the plane,” Ersson said on the Facebook live video, which has now been viewed more than 2 million times. “The pilot has the right to say that he is not allowed to be on the plane.”

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If the man were deported to conflict-ridden Afghanistan, she told the people around her, “he will most likely get killed.”

As she continued filming and refusing to take her seat, passengers and flight attendants are heard on the video growing increasingly frustrated.

“Sit down, we want to go,” one voice is heard saying.

A flight attendant tells her several times to turn off her phone, because the airline’s safety demonstration was underway. “You have to take your seat and turn it off or you can leave the aircraft,” the flight attendant says. He explains to her that the flight is bound for Istanbul, where authorities would then escort the deportee on to a flight to Afghanistan. “In Istanbul they are going to decide what to do,” the flight attendant says.

“I don’t want a man’s life to be taken away just because you don’t want to miss your flight,” Ersson responds. She insists that what she is doing is perfectly legal. She films only her face, rarely showing the faces of those around her, out of privacy concerns.

The flight attendant says the crew is “not authorized to do something like this,” because the deportee was being accompanied by Swedish authorities. ”