Do you know how he's holding me? He's trying to not detain me. Ma'am, I They know Officer, let go of me. I'll spit on you. >> On March 21st, 2023, Miami-Dade Airport Police arrested a passenger removed from Frontier Airlines flight 2326 at Miami International Airport. Three felony CHARGES FOLLOWED. >> GUYS, I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE GOT KICKED OFF. THIS IS my friend, so I'm going with her. >> I'm a retired Army veteran. I know how to conduct myself. I know how to conduct myself. >> Put your bags on the floor first. >> Why? >> Take off your Take off your purse, okay? >> Why? >> You guys are going to jail. >> I'm Why are we going to jail? >> Take off your purse. >> I'm not complying. You can't hold me. >> Hold on. Hold on. >> Taleah! >> Relax. Relax. Relax. >> No, you're making me uncomfortable. >> Relax. Relax. Relax. >> me uncomfortable. Why am I going to jail? >> Relax. Relax. Got it? Taleah! Let's go. What's wrong with you? >> Cuz you're making me uncomfortable. >> Calm down. Calm down. >> No. >> You're under arrest. >> For what? >> We'll let you know right now. Come on. >> YOU'RE CHOKING ME. TALEAH! TALEAH! OKAY. I'M BEING CHOKED. CAN I breathe? >> Nobody's choking you. Relax. Can you relax? Can you relax? >> I'm telling you I'm I'm fine. >> You're not. >> YOU'RE THE ONE ACTING CRAZY. >> LOOK AT MY ARM. >> BECAUSE YOU'RE ACTING CRAZY. >> NO, I came off the plane by myself. You didn't come and get me off the plane. >> Lady, we already told you you were under arrest. >> No, you did not. They told me I had to get off the plane. >> [laughter] >> Right now. >> What? Excuse me. They told me I had to deboard. They didn't tell me I had to um Can I please Can you let go of me like this? Excuse me, sir. >> Calm down. >> I am a sergeant. It's fine. >> not acting like You're not acting like a normal human being. >> You're not either. You're not either. >> You are under arrest right now. Calm down. I don't want to talk to you. Calm down. Calm down. What's wrong with All right. >> You stopped touching me because I I'M CHOKING. I'M CHOKING. LET GO OF ME. >> MA'AM, CALM DOWN. LIKE YOU SEE I'm not drunk. >> I'm completely sober. What's wrong? Excuse me, sir. SHE'S KICKED OFF. I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M BEING ARRESTED. YES, YOU ARE. >> I TRIED TO CALM HER DOWN. I TOLD HER TO CALM DOWN. SHE'S NOT SCREAMING. I'M SOBER. >> EXCUSE ME, MA'AM. Can you hold me? A man can hold [laughter] me, but not a man. Look at how No, I won't I am not I am not high. Look, I'm not high. Look at how he's holding me. He's trying to assault and detain me. Ma'am, I think not. Officer, I'm holding up you. I'll sit on you. I'll give [ __ ] two. You're pushing. I have no name. >> Relax. >> Look, okay, look. Figure it out. Let him >> You don't want to talk to them. Don't worry. Talk to me, okay? >> Ma'am, can I speak to you? Can you come over here? Can we move around? You guys can both hold me, but move me away because I'm going Then I'll break out of this as quick as you ever seen. I love too much. >> Listen, you're going to get more charges for no reason. >> We've got no charges. >> You're going to get more charges. >> Everybody on the plane has no issue with us. Can you listen to me? >> Listen, you ain't talking. >> Can I BE LET GO OF? I'M VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. I can't Can YOU LET GO OF YOU need to give me and the space to walk. YOU GUYS CAN HOLD me like this. I can't I'm not trying to fight. HOW CAN I FIGHT WITH MY HANDS LIKE THIS? I feel entangled. I feel entangled. Look, that was perfectly fine. Can I speak? Nobody has said anything to anybody. So, why am I detained? Wait. No, it is not the refuse. Even the airport The people that was sitting next to us said, "Why are they trying to kick you off?" You can go on and ask everyone. I'm retired army. I understand. I get every package free. I get loaded for free but they asked me why. Please tell me. And that's what she was saying cuz that was my baby dog. It doesn't justify anything but it justifies you acting like this. Please tell me. When I fight for my opinion, you don't fight for my opinion. LIKE I FIGHT I SHOT I HAD GUY BRING FOOD TO ME. LET'S BE REAL. I see guy ignore. That's not fair. So, you don't get to Mommy. So, figure it out for them to do the same. I've never been arrested. You can look at my record. I've never been arrested like this. Do you want to see the picture for my photos? No, no. Take a picture. I need a picture. I am being reasonable. my Instagram so they know why I'm not home at my party tonight that I have to be at that I got paid 3,000 for. Thank you. Nobody on the plane said nothing. She if anything, I should have been arrested, not her BECAUSE SHE WAS WE'RE NOT TALKING TO YOU. I DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE TALKING TO THOSE GUYS. I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU ALL to help me to help her. Okay, until we further investigate what's going on. I didn't refuse to I never got a And they They me to get off the plane and told you guys were here. I never refused to get Why would I refuse to get off if I could get on another flight? What sense does that make? They're entertaining us to keep us from acting violent but you don't understand that makes us more acting more violent. I know Army veteran. I understand how to control my anger. That's why before when I got on here when the guy was being smart about veterans, he was like, "Oh, you can't board." I said, "Yes, I can. I'm from here. You can." No, every Are you listening to me or no? We're not going to be going If we're not together, we're not boarding the plane. My hands are tied and I will definitely Not you, but I will definitely Miami-Dade Police Department. My bag is still on the plane. Two Louis bags. CARRY ON BAGS, TOO. I DON'T KNOW. GOOD LUCK. I can't even yell. I didn't even yell at you. I don't care. Just get me out of here. I don't want my clothes. I don't want that [ __ ] when I GO HOME. I DON'T WANT THAT WHEN I GO HOME. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GO HOME CUZ YOU KILLED MY BEST FRIEND DIED IN FRONT OF MY HOTEL. WHAT THE [ __ ] IS WRONG WITH Y'ALL? Y'ALL ARE SICK. YOU'RE SICK. I thought you would be different. You're sick. You're sick. MY BEST FRIEND GOT SHOT, WHOLE BLOOD, IN FRONT OF THE HOTEL. I've been trying to go home since then. No, you're not. If you were sorry, I wouldn't be IN THE [ __ ] YELLING NOBODY. I DIDN'T YELL AT NOBODY. I didn't behave the way you said here. EVEN EVERYBODY ELSE, I DIDN'T YOU CAN ASK EVERYONE SITTING NEXT to me. They're having me hold their BABIES. WHY WOULD I WHY WOULD THEY HAVE ME HOLD THEIR BABIES IF I WASN'T a good person? YOU I HATE ALL Y'ALL. NOW, get off me. >> Don't make it harder than what it has to of me. >> on. >> Ma'am, you're going to get hurt. >> You're going to get hurt. >> Under 49 U.S.C. Section 44902, Frontier held federal authority to remove the subject and request law enforcement. Officers were executing lawful duty from first contact, a foundational element of every charge that followed. Probable cause existed before physical contact began. Refusal of a lawful removal order combined with threatening conduct toward crew. No warrant required at Water V. City of Lago Vista 2001 confirms this for even minor offenses. Once the arrest was declared, Florida Statute Section 843.1 governed everything that followed. The Florida Supreme Court in Tillman V. State 2006 settled this. Physical resistance to arrest is unlawful even if the arrest itself is later found improper. Force is evaluated under Graham V. Connor 1989, three factors: severity of offense, immediate threat, and active resistance. All three weighed toward escalation throughout this encounter. Officers escalated sequentially. Verbal commands, soft escort, multi-officer carry, leg restraints deployed only after the subject kicked on an elevated staircase. No intermediate weapons used. Textbook continuum compliance per USV Cordell 11th Cir. 2014. The subject's choking claim does not meet the legal threshold. Graham requires force to be objectively reasonable, not pain-free. Nothing in this footage establishes airway compromise. >> Yeah, I got a baby. >> Got it? >> Yeah. >> Walk down the stairs. Don't knock over You're going >> You get one side and I'm going to get the other. I think you are Let's go. Ah! >> You got leg restraints? >> I can't breathe. You're like, "Yeah, I'm not being funny." >> Wait on the leg restraints. >> You [ __ ] >> She's trying to kick. That's why That's why >> That's not going to stop me. I'm just going to sue you. Cuz I feel very mishandled. I've been raped by military police officers. >> All right. Give it some slack, Bonnie, so we can so we grab it under the hitch. >> Yeah, you got slack here. >> Oh yeah, but she's still got >> All of this from military veterans. I'M GOING TO REMEMBER all your faces. >> I think I think my cuffs are on her. My cuffs are on her. >> Yeah, so You guys You guys are such You're not even real cops. >> You want to grab the other side? Or just grab the other side? >> Okay. her. She's a monster. That's my hair. >> If you open this door, it'll make your life easier. >> Can I get the flight number that's on >> You can come up to here, all right? >> Yes. Flight number is 2326. >> She says she's an army veteran, though. >> No, yeah, no. She was saying that the whole time. >> 2326? >> Yeah. She was telling me that. That's why I remember I looked at you and I did this. I said, "Come up to the front." >> I said, "Why?" I didn't notice. I'm sorry. >> She said she was going to kick my ass. >> All right, ladies. >> She's like a sexual predator. Yes. >> We already got all of your information, uh >> He got all of my information. >> Okay, that's fine. >> Okay, well, I don't know what happened in the back, so if you guys are >> No, that's fine. Just you party first. >> She has like a sexual fetish with you. >> It'll be in this report. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Don't blame me for >> Don't blame me. All right, cool. >> All right, I don't >> I am a woman. >> I understand you don't have a tampon. >> I am bleeding from my vagina. Well, then you have to figure something out. There's no point in letting me out without a tampon. How am I going to >> No, it's >> How am I going to pee without a tampon? >> Do you have one? >> Um in my luggage that's not here. It's my carry-on. >> Your carry-on's right here. >> No, like my luggage that's checked. Not the luggage I have right here. You guys are so ghetto. I can't wait to sue you. No, I need a tampon. >> You don't have a tampon now. >> Excuse me, sir. I don't feel comfortable getting out without a tampon because I don't know if you Excuse me, sir. Because if I get out without a tampon and they ask for a tampon, then you're going to say I'm antagonizing you and then I'm going to get arrested again. So, what's the point of asking for cop's help? No, cuz when I ask for cop's help the first time, don't know. arrested me. get out and pee or not? >> I do, but I would rather pee right here and you guys clean it up >> We're not going to clean it up. Listen, it's not going to be >> problem. You guys will have to >> to pee on yourself? >> It's not myself. I'm going to pee and I'm going to scoot over. That's >> So, you don't want to go use the bathroom? >> I asked you for a tampon, but you're not going to get >> a tampon. We do not have one. >> one. I'm a woman. >> find one. I don't have one. >> You did not look. >> I going to get one? >> Um, can you go to the front desk or the concierge? >> What is a concierge? This is not a hotel. >> Well, then you better figure it out. You brought me here. I have a There's no way you don't have tampons. >> You, there's no way you you don't have tampons. >> Sir, I do. >> Okay. You have it in your bag and you can get it from your bag then. >> excuse me. Sir, when I boarded the plane, they give me that. When I boarded When I go to the bathroom Excuse me, can I raise my hand and talk or are you going to talk over me? >> Ma'am, you have to talk right here. >> Can I talk now? >> You've already talked enough. >> When you board the airplane, they give Here, I can help you. When you board the airplane, they give you a >> You're leaving home? >> Huh? She doesn't want to get out? She said She said she's not getting out without a tampon. At all. >> Battery on a law enforcement officer under section 784.07 requires four elements: intentional contact against the officer's will with knowledge of their status during lawful duty. All four are documented on camera twice against two separate officers. One systemic failure stands out. Prior threats by the subject against a flight attendant were never relayed to officers before contact. Under Graham, reasonableness is judged by what officers knew at the moment of decision. That gap is a correctable protocol failure. A section 1983 civil claim faces substantial obstacles. The arrest was lawful, force was proportionate, no constitutional right was demonstrably violated. Case disposition unknown at time of this analysis. Miami-Dade Airport Police B+ proportionate escalation, consistent de-escalation, no intermediate weapons. Deducted for absence of pre-contact briefing. Simone Bynum D felony conduct on camera after lawful arrest declaration. Frontier Airlines and MDPD institutionally be lawful action shared responsibility for the information gap. Three lessons. First, the right to contest an arrest belongs in court, not on a jet bridge, Tillman is settled law. Second, pre-contact briefing is a use of force issue. What officers know at first contact shapes every decision that follows. Third, sequential documented force escalation is both legally defensible and tactically sound. Let us know if there is an interaction or legal topic you would like us to discuss in the comments below. Thank you for watching.