Entitled Man Tries Forcing His Way Onto Plane

Brief Summary

This video documents an incident at an airport where a man was denied boarding a flight due to his disruptive behavior. The video captures the escalating situation as law enforcement intervenes, ultimately leading to the man's arrest for battery and resisting an officer. Key points include the initial disturbance, the denial of boarding, the man's refusal to comply with instructions, and his eventual arrest.

  • Man creates disturbance at airport gate and denied boarding.
  • Man refuses to comply with officers instructions.
  • Man arrested for battery and resisting an officer.

Initial Disturbance at the Airport

On September 27th, 2023, police officers responded to reports of a man causing a disturbance at the airport. The man had bypassed security and made his way onto the jet bridge. Officers try to stop him and direct him to walk to the end of the bridge to talk and resolve the situation. The man is agitated and refuses to listen to the officers' instructions.

Confrontation and Denial of Boarding

The officers attempt to reason with the man, explaining that if the airline is telling him he cannot fly, he needs to listen to them. The man accuses the airline staff of being racist. An airline employee explains that the man was initially yelling at her and demanding immediate assistance despite her attending to other passengers. The captain of the flight overheard the man screaming and threatening staff, leading to the decision to deny him boarding.

Refusal to Comply and Escalation

The officers ask the man for his ID, but he refuses to provide it and demands a translator, even though he speaks English. He claims he is being discriminated against. The officers explain that the airline is a private business and has the right to refuse service. The man continues to be uncooperative, acting like a "2-year-old" and refusing to accept that he will not be allowed on the plane.

Arrest for Battery and Resisting an Officer

The decision is made to arrest the man. When officers attempt to handcuff him, he resists, leading to a struggle on the ground. The man claims the handcuffs are too tight and repeatedly asks for a lawyer. He continues to resist while officers try to secure him. The man is eventually subdued and escorted away, still protesting and claiming he did nothing wrong.

Post-Arrest Procedures and Charges

After the arrest, officers discuss the charges against the man, which include battery and resisting an officer with violence. They review the incident, noting the man's resistance from the moment they attempted to handcuff him. The officers ensure that all actions are recorded on camera and inform the man that his belongings will be searched in his presence.

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0:00 On September 27th, 2023, officers were called to the airport after reports of a man causing a disturbance. Where is he? He somehow managed to make it down. Stop him. Excuse me. Get out of the way, please. Thank you. Yo, let's go. All right, let's go. Come with me. Let's go. What are you doing? What are you doing? Let's go. I'm doing nothing. Get off the bridge. Let's go. You don't listen to people. Is that your

0:45 problem? Come on. Let's go. Keep walking. Look. Wait. Listen. We get to the end. We talk. All right. Okay. I Let's go. Can I talk? No. You walk to the end. Talk. Walk now. We talk later. You You got a problem listening to people? I will. Keep going. Keep walking. Let's go. They tell you you're not flying, you're not flying. Why not? Yeah, they are. They're right. Come on. Keep going. Racist. Okay. Well, they're racist. They are racist and I am keep walking. I'm wrong. Keep walking. They are racist and I'm wrong. If they tell you you're not flying, you're not flying. So, you have to listen to them. How about that? I I will listen. Keep walking. I listen to the cops. I'm listening to you. The police. Well, you got to listen to them, too. Yeah. Let's go. No, I don't have to

1:31 listen to Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do, buddy. Come on. Let's go. Come on, man. Don't worry. Please move. No violence, right? Listen. Don't make it Don't make this be If they're telling you not to go on the plane, why why don't you listen to them if they tell you that? It's not up to you. Except to them. So they are racist and then you're going to sit over here and we're going to have a nice long chat. That's what's going to happen. Come sit over here. Yeah, I know. You have your ID. What's wrong, sir? Listen to you. You got your license, sir. You got your license. The two I

2:17 was. Okay. He just asked for your license. So it's is really necessary. Yes. Yes, they tell you you're not flying. You're not fly. Me, you're not going to fly. I'll tell you. Huh? I don't know what happened. He tried me. He screaming me. Whatever the situation, what you going to do? I was over here at gate 82. He came over there screaming. Why are you screaming for no reason? I have no idea what happened. The the captain was here at the gate. The captain heard him screaming, threatening, and the captain said he doesn't want him on the flight. So, we boarded the flight. We told him, "You're not allowed. We can't let you go." He was supposed to go at 82. No, he was supposed to go here, but I was working at 82. Okay. So, the captain heard him screaming at

3:03 me and screaming at him, and the captain said he doesn't want him on the flight. She's telling I discriminate her. Just relax. I have been discrimination. Say you discriminated me. What? You I discriminate you. Why are you being so loud? I have been discriminated. Why are you being so loud? I'm not I'm complaining. We're trying to help you. We're trying to help them. When you If you were to help me, I need to take this plane. You're not going to get on that plane. You're not flying on that plane. After this, they're probably not going to let you fly. You're not going to fly on a plane. They told you no. No means no. That's the rules. No means no, sir. They run the show. I pass through the the the security. It doesn't matter. I do anything. I do nothing. It doesn't matter. Right. It's the If they want to

3:49 tell you not to fly, they can say it. It's their right. No means no. Where's your Where's your ID? I need a translator, sir. I'm sorry. I need a translator. Okay. A translator. Yeah. Let's send you a port. You speak Spanish? I need a translator, please. You need You speak Spanish? I can't talk with a translation. That's a a lawyer. You're You're hilarious. You listen to yourself. What What you tell, man? They discriminate me. No, they told you no, you're not going to fly. That means why they don't have to have a reason. That's a private That's a private company. No, they can tell you anybody they want. Is that the right to discriminate? Well, I'm not here for that. I'm here because they told you no. And you say no. I'm here because they told you no. And no

4:34 means no. Do you understand? No means no. It doesn't mean maybe. It doesn't mean it's up to you. Cuz it's not up to you. It's not up to you. It's a private business. They said no. That means no. That's what it means. Your license. I'm gonna get a translator over here. I'm gonna get a translator over here. Okay. Lentia Poravore. If he asks you that, we're going to have a problem. I don't have a problem. Oh, I'm going to have a problem. I I I I'm going to tell you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing. It's pretty bad for you right now. You're being ridiculous. It's bad for you now. And you're making it worse. So rude. I'm not rude to you. I asked you a question. You're ridiculous. Give me your license. But I am. You're like a 2-year-old kid. You have your boarding pass. Why? I don't know why. license or boarding pass? Need a translator and then translator is not going to help you. So

5:21 what happened? Uh the passenger originally came up to me after I was I was still working in Philadelphia. We were delayed 4 and 1 half hours and trying to get him out of here. He came up to me, approached me here and started yelling at me immediately that he was demanding I help him immediately and I said, "Hey man, I'll try to help you, but I got to see my Philadelphia passengers off first." And once I said that, he started screaming at me, saying, "I demand help right now." And then uh I told him, "You need to respect me. You need to be quiet. And once I'm done with this, I'll come help you." Um I had to walk away from him. At that point, came back up here. He wasn't he wasn't available to me, but I got called by my colleague that he had approached her, screaming at her, and we're with a with this camera recording her. And I

6:07 went to go meet a plane, and he ran up to me to take a video or photo of me. I asked him not to and I said, "Sir, you keep this up. We're going to have to not allow you to fly with American Airlines." And then during the initial boarding, I stood behind my boarding agent to monitor and tell him, "I want to step to the side." So, I said, "Sir," and he step to the side, "You're not going to be able to play with us today." And he persisted to try to scan a 40 pass. So, I put your hand on the scanner. And I tried to turn to the side and then he tried that pass come around him. He was still uh when I did that I had physic I physically got hit on my hand cuz he was trying to access the scanner with my hand over it. I he never did

6:52 scan and then he just went on down and at that point I figured I should get ahead of him and I shut my shut my secure door and when I went to lock the door and I tried to shut the door he ran through my arm and I'm still kind of feeling the numbness in my fingers. actually specifically. Do you want you want to press charges? You want to press charges for battery? I think I do. Okay. I don't know why this you you have a clear problem with listening. You have a very clear problem with listening. I'm a vocational. Okay. So what? I'm not here to get a problem. Well, you already are a problem clearly. Why am I here talking to you? Let me see the your boarding pass or your license. I'm waiting. You can wait all you want.

7:40 It's not going to change anything. You're making this a lot worse and a lot harder than you have. You act like a 2-year-old. 2-year-old baby services. Because you're acting like a baby. Like a baby. But what did you You think you're going to just walk onto the plane after they told you no. That's like a 2-year-old. Why would they say they can say whatever they want? I say call the cops. No means no. I need to get out of you're not going on the plane. I'm flying today, man. Flight. Okay. Thank you very much. No, not thank you very much. You're done. Thank you. You're welcome. We're here to help you. Everybody sold. We're here to help you, sir. He's going to go for bad. We're going to hit him. Trying to get down to

8:26 the gate. Perfect. All right. Stand up. Put your hands behind your back. What? You're being arrested for battery. Stand up and put your hands behind your back. What's happened, sir? You're being arrested for battery. What happened, sir? Let's take this off. Take it off. Take it off. Put your hand behind your back. Don't put your hand behind your back. Take it off real quick. Your hand behind your back. That's all you got to do. I got it. I got this. I got your phone. She's holding my my arm. Put your hand behind your back. I'll put this. Okay. Stop. Okay. I I just want to take my This is what's going to happen. You're going to go to the ground. I just I don't know. I just put here behind your back. Oh, yeah. That's right. You're not You're not okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Put your hands behind your back. I'm in the

9:13 ground. You sure are. Put your hand behind your back. Stop resisting. And put your hand behind your back. I got I got it. Help it. Help it. I got it. Help it. Help it. There you go. Help. Help. Help. We're okay. We're okay. Help. We're okay. Oh, man. What are you doing, man? I'm a vacation, man. What you doing, man? Have a very hard time. Okay. I mean, listen, you got I asked you for another. All right. Wait. It's too tight. It's too tight.

9:59 It's the time. Help me. Yeah, that's going to help me. Somebody help me. It's the time. Okay, relax. Stop yelling. Move your hands. It's the time. Wait a minute. I can fix it. Stop. Help me. No. You see that again? No. Catching everything, man. No. Come catching everything. What are you doing, man? I'm trying to fix. I'm no violence, right? I asking for a lawyer. I asking for a lawyer. Just stop. I asking for a liar. I can't fix it while you're doing this, sir. I can't get to it. We should stand

10:45 up. You stand, man. Why we die? There you go. Better. It's good. It's good. Now, you going to stand up or what? Stop yelling. A help. You're getting arrested, man. Stop making it a big deal. Why am I arrested, man? Why am I arrested? I did not. Okay. You are police, guy. You look like television. You are like television. Can I get my phone from my bed, please? No. Just touch it. No. Just that's what I'm asking for. Sir, you need to stop resisting. You're still resisting. I'm not resisting. Yes, you are. I said no. I just want to take my phone and put my bag, please. Sir,

11:31 walk that way. What are you doing? My bag. My My bag. I I've been search all the time here. Put my phone in the bag, please. I will lost it. Sir, you are the lawuit. Why you did that? You're not listening. You're having a very hard time listening. But I'm no lazy, sir. I'm lazy all the time. You've been You resist it the entire time. I don't resist. I just want to resist the food and put in the bag. That's from you. [ __ ] that way. Hey sir, stop yelling. Stop. What' you do? To hurt them. Come on.

12:18 You really are. Who's my victim? to do the job, man. All you were going to do is get rebooked and you made it completely worse. They take they they get what they want. Just that. No, that no one wanted this, buddy. Told you you couldn't go on and you thought you could just get right on it. That's what's really I say I say call the cop. It's like a 2-year-old. I say just call the shots. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. I told them, my man, they could tell anyone not to fly. They could tell me if they don't want me to fly. All right. Just don't get it. I just would like to know what they tell

13:05 you guys. You don't get to ask us questions if you ask for a lawyer. You're done because Okay. Because so so let's do it. [Music] Just one person. George, just one person. [Applause] Hey, you can you can you can you can I don't go anywhere, man. It's okay. You can you can let me. It's necessary. I I don't go anywhere. You resisted up until two seconds ago. I don't resist, sir. Sure you did. Well, at first not the camera. You know what? No means. No means no. The camera says no means. It's all on here. Absolutely. You're right. I did resist you. When he

13:51 said come again, buddy. I said put your hands behind your back. It doesn't mean you start reaching for stuff. When you say put your hands behind your back, is that what that means? That mean I was just trying. It was fine. You didn't have to do it. All right. On my back. Just that. I just want to know what I may have in a cusate just that you touched them. Lady, you could you tell me what I I don't Battery. Battery. Battery. Battery. What is it? Means you touch somebody that you shouldn't have. I touch somebody. Yes,

14:37 sir. Transport. I didn't right and the camera will show it. Yes, sir. I can go with you and do the ECR. I just I need info. It's all So, I don't know how you want to do it. No, it's fine. So I should I should watch what you're doing. You are messing my things and I not in my presence. Not in my presence. Want to go on the outside. You should mess my things in my presence. The camera is filing. All right. Everything's on camera. Everything's on camera. Look, his camera is on. You need to mess my things in my presence. You don't need to you you don't you don't Everything's recorded. This This just with a water. You have a warn. You have

15:22 a warn. I don't I don't need one. You're arrested. Okay. You You don't need All right. We're going the other side. We're going in the car. All right. Okay. Everything's recorded, my friend. Everything. The whole encounter. I I I you all the time, my man. You take it off. No, we're not taking it off. You have to ride with it in the front. Nope. No. You want to uh go outside and put this on? Yeah. Yeah.

16:12 No. You should have information. You want me to go with Garrett for the transport? Yeah. All right. I'll call him if anyone think you got a battery and you got resistant violence. Is he resistant from the second we tried to put him? Is there any type of charge for um going on the jet bridge when he? No. It's not like a kind of I figured that. All right. Just battery and resistance. Okay. He was charged with battery and resisting an officer with violence.

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