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):
This was Tuesday. Part 1 of 3. 👇
“You as a k*** human” pic.twitter.com/7xFzK87cb1
— Joe Has Dementia (@RokerGlasses) March 21, 2024
Part 2 of 3. 👇
“See most of the people are white here… I’m trying to get back to my own country and you all people made it harder for me to get to my country.” pic.twitter.com/bqJEbMmQit
— Joe Has Dementia (@RokerGlasses) March 21, 2024
Part 3 of 3. The Grand Finale.👇
Can we hire the guy in the blue hoodie to work the front lines of the soon-to-be-created deportation task force? pic.twitter.com/6atbosqp7V
— Joe Has Dementia (@RokerGlasses) March 21, 2024
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