An American Airlines passenger found himself being marched off a flight in a headlock after making a scene onboard a flight in Florida, including a diatribe against white people and uttering an antisemitic slur against a male flight attendant multiple times.
American Airlines Passenger Placed In Headlock, Kicked Off Flight After Hurling Antisemitic Slur At Flight Attendant
We turn to Florida, specifically to Tampa. On Tuesday, March 19, 2024, American Airlines flight 2506 from Tampa (TPA) to Philadelphia (PHL) boarded and was preparing to takeoff. But one passenger became agitated. That boiled over when he called a male flight attendant a “Kike” and then insisted that he was just trying to get back to his “home country” (it is not clear what is home country is).
He was asked to get off the aircraft but instead took his seat. An off-duty police officer came over and engaged him in conversation which seemed to rile him up even more. The passenger accused other passengers of “teaming up” against him.
The altercation between the man and the cop got physical (the passenger appeared to attack first) and the cop quickly put the man in a headlock and yelled, “Put your hands down and don’t touch anybody!”
A woman sprang up who also claimed to be an off-duty police officer and together (with the help of one other man), they pushed the man off the flight.
AA2506 ended up departing about 30 minutes late and the disturbed passenger, whose identity has not yet been released, was arrested and charged with two counts of battery and also with disorderly intoxication.
Here are three video clips of what occurred onboard (language is NSFW):
https://twitter.com/RokerGlasses/status/1770771780581331350?s=20
https://twitter.com/RokerGlasses/status/1770774417850683816?s=20
https://twitter.com/RokerGlasses/status/1770783200572227695?s=20
CONCLUSION
Whatever this incident was about, it seems that the striped shirt passenger had too much to drink and that brought out the bigotry in him. The situation turned pretty violent onboard…fortunately, no one was hurt.
image: @RokerGlasses / X
I’ll still fly AA cuz they come in low bid and their miles are still pretty good. These incidents are pretty rare anyway.
I wonder how many off duty police officers or security guards are on any given flight? That’s the first incident I can recall where the passenger was offloaded by a police officer(s) as passenger. The poor crew, having to deal with all of that and they weren’t even getting paid for that time as they hadn’t pushed back yet. There have been a lot of incidents of alcohol+unruly passengers so far this year. Whatever happened to that guy on the Emirates flight to Islamabad? Also one earlier this week on Jetstar to Bali from MEL. Don’t get wasted and fly, especially if you’re prone to getting aggressive when drunk. Never a good outcome in the end.
@JK … Import clowns from the third world … then be stuck with them in public … unless good people show them the door .
Careful, your true colors are showing.
Good ole USA-born wingnuts abound as much as any foreign wingnuts… Based on the number and frequency of reports of air rage, the bulk seem to be triggered by bad behavior, drunkenness and entitlement mentality, regardless of national origin or nationality. That said, of the thousands of flights in the US every day, what is the actual percentage of flights resulting in issues such as these? Incredibly low. Per the FAA: “Every day, FAA’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO) provides service to more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace.” These ridiculous incidents remain few and far between (although growing in number and absurdity).
2 off duty police officers? Hope they have proof because at this rate, anyone can claim to be one and take matters into their own hands.
I saw someone play the “off duty police officer” card once in an incident that happened in the grocery store. The real police were called, and they exposed the “off duty officer” as a fake in less than five seconds.
All they said was “You’re an off duty officer? Great, then you know we’re going to need your badge number, your name, and the department you work for so that we can call in to verify you. So, badge number?”
Import the third world … become the third world .
Morons being morons.
Hilarious, spend the better part of 2 decades claiming all white people are racist, then get surprised when this happens. This is your doing, Matt.
First they came for the working class white males…
It’s little Aaron in high school after mouthing off to the bigger kids. After that they dunked his head in the toilet and gave him a wedgie.
And he enjoyed it so much he gets his boy toys to do it to him daily.
How funny is the name of the X user? Has to upset little Aaron even more.
The X user is frequently quoted by Tucker Carlson.
Awesome, Tucker is a national treasure.
Hope the Democrats don’t have him killed, it’s what they do.
Pfft, Koggerj even you can’t say that with a straight face
Aw, another deplorable t*rd whose head I live rent free inside of. Members of a klan flock together, I guess.
Is turd a bad word that can’t be fully written here? Don’t you people call each other turd burglars as a term of endearment?
I’m sure little Aaron cleans himself before anything of the sort happens. He wouldn’t want any embarrassing mishaps
Nah, only homophopbic @sshats like you use vile terms like that.
Cleaner than you’ll ever be, Chi.
Aw, I seem to be living inside your head rent free, you deplorable hateful t*rd.
You flash into my mind when I read this blog because I look forward to your moronic yet amusing comments. Also this guy seems to be a weak, jew-hating loser, so naturally I thought of you.
Unfortunately, nobody looks forward to your hateful asinine bigotry, and yet it’s here. Also, unlike you, I don’t hate Jews. But then again, just another example of your ignorance.
Guy finds out quickly he’s not on Reddit anymore.
He attacked White people and Jews and got escorted off the plane? Given the rampant anti-White agenda all around as well as allowing blatant antisemitism to thrive I’m surprised he didn’t get a medal. Luckily, some people still have some sense in this country.
The rampant anti-White agenda?
This is one way to clean the cabin.
@Maryland … +1 . I say , gate agent or check-in agent ought to have never allowed him on the plane .
Alert I totally agree.
How soon before the democrat party tries to run him for Congress? He’s right up their alley although he’s not up to ilhan Omar but I’m sure they can get him more anti American and antisemitic is short order.
Or they can just have you run instead, since you tick so many of checkboxes on the list…but then again, I don’t think they want vile hateful people like you.
It seems that American Airlines have more of these incidents than the rest put together. You may wonder what they do to provoke them.
I noticed you didn’t mention he was Muslim… but had no problem calling out a “conservative” comic. Great reporting.
It says nowhere that he was Muslim. In fact, he looked Indian to me…
I agree, looks Indian. However, he doesn’t have the funny Indian accent, so…
Clearly he is a virulent anti Semite, Muslim or not. You don’t hear of too many anti-Semite Hindus or Seiks. He proudly used the word K*ke which marks his views on things. He was treated better than he deserved. Notice how the main stream media are not covering this as it is another disrupter on an aircraft that don’t fit their narrative.
There are 200 million Muslim people in India…
I’m sure the wokes are going to rise to his defense (after all what’s a little bit of antisemtism or anti-white sentiment for them, it’s more like a badge of honor) just like they did against the ex-marine on the NYC subway who got charged with murder for heroically defending passengers
You mean the ex-marine who pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the May 1 death of Jordan Neely, who was reportedly struggling with mental illness. Penny (the ex-marine) put Neely, a subway performer, in a fatal chokehold after he had been reportedly shouting at passengers and behaving erratically.
The guy on the plane who used the antisemitic slur was just as gross as the people on this chat who throw out racist/homophobic/etc comments. Stop acting like y’all are better than him.
That marine is a hero, he took out the trash.
By that metric, then, he should have taken you out as well.
Not Mr. Hoodie’s first rodeo.
Backward hat Ron Jon shirt guy IS Florida.
Did I hear it correctly? When blue hoodie is wrangling the guy off the plane, the guy says “I’m schizophrenic” and blue hoodie says “So am I! Walk!”
The interesting part to me is how blue hoodie transitioned to a rear choke type position, which seems to be a very advantageous position to take in the confines of an airplane aisle.
@Mr/Marcus … +1 . Blue hoddie evokes a Marine .
He says “so am I” to the lady in a cap, who says she is also a police officer. And it’s hilarious (and impressive) to see him easily lock the racist beta up without having to resort to striking. Respect
He says the “so am I” part several times– the first time to the lady cop, but right about 1:05 in the 3rd video, where he pulls the guys head back, is what I’m talking about. Not that it matters, it was just something I wasn’t expecting.
This episode and many of the comments here shows that there are a lot of ignorant, evil people in the world. In the words of Rodney King- “can’t we just get along”?
This is also the internet, and a relatively anonymous forum at that. No one should take it seriously.
But this blog, as relativity anonymous does take the temperature of this country. And that’s interesting…
Yeah, for some quite a few of them seem to have congregated here and just made the comments section nastier. “Don’t take it seriously” is just another way to excusing that vile nonsense.
no such thing as anti-semitic….meaningless word whose definition changes and is made up by modern Jews (or zionists if you like). Jews of the past would be considered anti-semite by today’s def’n.
How come you never write Anti-Chinese? Anti-Thai. Anti-Japanese Or Anti-Islam? Or Anti-Christian? Anti-Buddhist. Anti-French. Anti-English. That’s right — none of those “sound right” because nobody uses that word salad/combo. Or Anti-_____
say where have I seen this ANTI word before: Oh….Anti-Masker. Anti-Vaxxer…hmmm…who controls the CDC, Pfizer, and Moderna? Who are Biden’s children married to? Sometimes we see Anti-American…I wonder how that came up and for what purpose?
Visit UNZ or Renegade Tribune to get a clue.
Remember these third worlders hate you and only want to take what you have.
I dunno,I’ve always kinda liked “bad boys”..no real harm done.LOL..But I like Henry Miller and Kerouac ,Burroughs too.
I think that he should be escorted back to his “home country”, and barred from ever entering the US again .