Video Surfaces: NYC Mayor Confronted In Tight Middle Seat On American Airlines Flight Back To New York
New York City Mayor Eric Adams was confronted by a woman boarding an American Airlines flight from Miami to New York on Monday. His Honor was seated in an exit row middle seat, and the woman approached him, first asking whether he was in fact the mayor – and then began to launch into a wide-ranging tirade.
The anti-Israel activist, headed to New York as well, recorded herself lambasting the mayor over a litany of issues.
She began “F-you” and moved on to criticizing his support for “genocide in Palestine,” then homelessness and poverty in New York, followed his social calendar for which he’s well-known: “You’re always partying! You don’t actually care about the citizens of New York.”
But she still couldn’t stay focused on any core message, moving onto his support for police funding. “You keep cutting the education budget so that you can fund the police. That’s all you care about, funding the police! Everything is underfunded because of you,” she shouted, as other passengers on the flight began to react. The Mayor just sort of looks at her, and she moves on because everyone has to move down the aisle to their seats in order to depart.
The Mayor’s office claims that other passengers jumped in to support him. This was… not captured on video. Adams was headed back to Manhattan following the 2024 Concordia Americas Summit.
“Are you Eric Adams?” Woman verbally harasses New York City Mayor Eric Adams on flight from Miami to New York. pic.twitter.com/n6P0sWiWsG
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) April 24, 2024
Meanwhile, the FBI is investigating the mayor over taking free flights and upgrades from Turkish Airlines. In contrast, Adams in his middle seat is apparently not doing enough for American Airlines.
My advice to guerilla protestors, videotaping yourself filming a politician on an airplane, is to stick to single, coherent message or else people will not remember you for that message and it will not be reported clearly.
(HT: Paul H)
