Don't touch anybody. Put your hands down and don't touch anybody. On March 19th, 2024, police were called to a jet bridge at a gate in Tampa International Airport after reports of an unruly passenger on a plane. Before officers arrived, the situation had already escalated. The passenger was subdued by several individuals who were later identified as off-duty police officers from Philadelphia. Cell phone footage captured by bystanders was later collected as evidence, helping to provide crucial context about what happened leading up to the officers' arrival. Here's how the events unfolded. much hate against one individual human, I will universally, karmically mess you up. So, show me the badge if you want me up. No, you have to show me the name. Bro, you're lying then. So, I can sit right back down. Do you have a bag you want to grab or anything before you get off? Don't taser me with two individuals against one. I didn't hit anyone, so you're [ __ ] anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's okay. Raising my voice for to a female, I'll see you about it with you, [ __ ] With what? You You You as a [ __ ] human. And is it because I'm sitting down and I'm lower than you? Yeah, I'm sitting down and yeah. Is it I'm sitting down lower you want to be a tough guy, bro? Just get off the plane. I'm moving. I'm moving. Hey, you know what, insulter? No, it's all you all teaming up. You see how most of the people are white here? Yeah, yeah, so you were like Do you want to get off the plane? Jesus, you got it. I'm trying to get to my home country and you all people made it harder for me to get to my home country. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. No, no, no, no. And And this right here, guys, take Yeah, yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no. You don't get to come into my country, either. It doesn't matter that I'm what I was about to say. Your home does not matter. Your home will not matter. How's that? Yeah, but don't team up. You see how many people commenting in one ear? But you are. She said it. You said it. You said it. You all But you're white. Like you're white. And you all are white teaming up against my ears. You don't care. Okay, then you don't care. Then you don't care. You don't care. I'm I'm not talking I'm not talking until these videotapes get off me. That's not the point. That's not the point. No, no, no. I don't like drama. >> [laughter] >> Hey, hey, I didn't get in your face. You told me to get off. You got it, cuz. Do you got it? Yeah, put your hands down and don't touch anybody. Put your hands down and don't touch anybody. You're going to walk. You're going to walk when you're in handcuffs. You walk. I'm talking. Walk. Turn around and walk. Let's go. I need airport Get off. The female caused the problem. I'm telling you the truth. I would like my hands released. I would like my hands released. I would like my hands released. >> [screaming] >> I would [screaming] like my hands Police are here, so just comply and we'll work it out, all right, my man? As long as there's a lawyer for me. Yo, yo, that's going to be illegal, sir. It's illegal illegal that All right? All right. Can you stand up? Come over. Come over. Can you help me? Come over. Bend your knees. No. Get me standing up. Let's go. Yeah, just stay put for a second. Do you want to see what happened? I'll take him up. Yeah, that was what happened. I'll defend I'll defend as long as I have a lawyer. Okay, let's go. Make sure I have a lawyer. Have you watched My Name Is Khan? Watched the movie? Have you seen it? Heard about it? Make way. Make way. For a innocent James, ready to go that side door? Down to the truck. For innocent civilian. I'll remember this. I didn't get hurt. I didn't hurt anyone first. I got hurt first. You You called these cops? Go. Go. Go. Go. Get out. Go. Get out of the way. Get out of the way. Move. Hold on. Put your shoe on. Yeah. You guess what? Spread your feet. I want a lawyer. I want a lawyer right now. I want a lawyer. I have money to back All right. Other side. All right, you got You got Do it first. Can't spin him around. >> I want my public defender right now. I want my public defender right now. Wait. Wait. Why are you pushing Pushing my arm? Okay. Okay. A little white. You resist, man, it's going to get worse. I'm not even resisting, man. So, you hurt me. Easy, buddy. You're hurting yourself. No, you No, I'm not. This This human is touching me. They're hurting me. Turn your wrist. Turn your wrist. This is my That's what I did, moving me. You know that, right? I told them I would love to. And now this is what your airport does. I'm taking you to the Supreme Court. I'll tell you that much, kiddos. Taking you all cops to the Supreme Court. >> Face the wall. Face the wall. Spread your feet. Spread your feet. More. More. I need a public defender. I need I need a public defender, please. You guys You got enough guys here. Come here. All right, let's walk. All right, let's walk nicely, okay? Oh, why do you think they all walk? I got I got this is a freedom of speech. Uh freedom of speech country, and I did not I did not violently hit someone before me. I'm Okay, so innocent innocent Don't mess with that. How are you doing? Jesus says that. Don't mess with innocent Do you have a California No, I'm talking. Don't mess with But I have a what and what? What? I Yeah, good for you. You're You're a fan of me. I see. You're You're a fan of me. When you embarrass me this much, you're a fan of me. I don't know what you're talking about, bro. What are you trying to say about my wallet? All right, you move out of the way. Move out of the way. Move. I need some water. I need some water. So, you have a California driver's license, but your address It's It's in Florida. It's in Florida. It's in Florida. But you have a California driver's license. That's right. And I'm also a USA naturalized citizen. So, do you And will you add that part? Will you add that part? What do you say? Do you live in California or do you No, no, no. The address The address says Florida on it. Read it right. Read it right. Read it the right way. Well, I just want to see if you were violating No, no. I'm saying I got hit. I got I got hit by one of those I got hit by one of those one of those air air guests of the airplane. I tell you that much. I want to check his socks. I want to check his feet first. Make sure there's nothing in his socks. Move forward. Take your shoes off. Take your shoes off. >> Yeah, yeah. I will if you let it go. Take off your shoes. This one. I got it. Bend your leg back. What? Bend this leg back. Hi. Hi. Hi. Can we get stuff off? Do you want to step off? No, no, no. It doesn't matter. So, what what exactly happened? So, we are standing here boarding. We started to hear yelling down the jet bridge. We can't stop So, people are like, "Hey, that guy is screaming back there. He's yelling curse words. He's yelling at some lady." Blah, blah, blah. Comes on, angry, gets up and >> We don't know who this person is. Um he got on. He started talking to her, getting in her face, pointing at her, just like You guys what do you say you're so disrespectful and I said, "What?" I go, "What is that about?" I never said anything to him. Yeah. It's always the problem. They treat me differently. They look at me. People with skin like you. Your kind of skin. And then he points to the guest and then your skin. He goes, "You're always It's always you that You look at me funny and you do this and you do that." And then he He turned the corner and goes, "And they tell me don't you assume that this is my father." And so, I didn't think the guy was with him. The guy that's supposedly his father. And he walked away from his dad. Feeling that the It was the weirdest thing. We find out. So, now passengers are coming after him going He's not well. Something's wrong with him. Yeah. So, now we're tumbled all the way up the aisle to row 13. I don't know how he got past the gate. He's causing a ruckus over here, right? Yeah, he made it all the way back there and screaming and yelling. And then I was like, "All right, I'm going to go ask him to get off." Um I got back there and he was already someone. But once I got back there, people were already starting to form a crowd. He was getting into his seat. He was yelling and cursing. What's your phone number? So, basically, from what you two said, you got alerted before boarding. People were boarding saying, "Hey, there's a guy back there." You could hear screaming. And it was in the jet bridge. I was in the jet bridge. And then he came up here. He started like with her. Started with her. But then continued down the aisle. Yeah. And as he was going >> I followed. Okay. And when you followed, what happened? I followed as told him to get off. He told me no. I asked probably three or four times. And then at that point I was like, "Okay, I need some help." So, I went and got her. Okay. And then And then that was basically it. Pretty much it till other people started getting involved. So, then how did he get off? The other passengers So, after gathering the witnesses' statements, the flight attendant mentioned he was traveling with someone that looked like his dad. An officer found this companion of his in order to get a statement from him as well. So, how do you know him? He's my son. Okay. Do you know what was going on with him? Do you know why he was so angry? I have no idea when we entered. Were you on the plane with him or not? I was together. Okay. >> All the way. So, can you can you tell me what happened? Just when we went inside when we went inside someone on the back told somebody something. They talked about it. And then maybe he got into Talked about what? How can I say maybe Maybe something related to racism or something. Oh. Directed toward him? Something like that. He must have heard about it and then he just got into argument. Okay. And then he went inside and then again he got into argument with somebody on the same issue and then Were you with him when this happened? All all the time. Okay. We had a few drinks. Any idea if this happened before? Never. Never? Okay. This happened one time? When he was first time. Okay. Well, he is being arrested right now for battery cuz he did strike somebody on the air. Um they're taking his stuff off the plane and they're going to put it in baggage here, okay, at the airport here. So, when he gets out of jail, he can come get his stuff at the baggage office if it's open. Because I understand this is an international flight. Is that right? >> Yeah. Okay. Do you have a driver's license? Thank you. Um thank you for clearing that up. It's It's good to know a little bit more to the story. Yeah, but he didn't you know, he didn't hit the person first. The person hit the person first. Well, they asked him to leave. They asked him to leave numerous times on the plane cuz he was yelling and screaming. And he didn't wouldn't leave. And they asked the captain and the gentleman on the jet bridge went on and asked him to leave as well. He wouldn't leave, so they had to escort him off. That's when it got physical. Yeah. Other passenger hit him first. So, that's why I think our guy was I have my bags I can pick it up. No, no, no. His just his bags, I believe. Oh. So, my bag Are you still flying? I have to I have to at least see what happens to him. He's going to Orient Road Jail. He's going to jail. He's going to Orient Road Jail. And you can try to post bond for him there. You can try to bail him out, post bond at Orient Road Jail. You can call a bondsman, a bail bondsman. You know how that works? You know how that works? How bail bondsman? He's going to go to jail. He has to bond out of jail if he wants to get out. Somebody has to pay money to make sure that he goes to court in the future to get him released from jail. Okay. And if he doesn't post bond, there's what they call it, then he stays in jail. It's up to you. He can post bond himself. He has a probably a wallet, cell phone with him. He can post his own bond or you can do it for him. So, This This your Put that shoe on. Put the sock in his pocket. Shoe back on. Bend this leg back. Drop it, dude. All right. Put your other shoe back on. Just put it in his pocket. Uh we made sure that we didn't Yeah. I'm not I'm not losing that I had a flight. Turn around. Lighter in your pocket? Watch your head. Awesome. Yeah, awesome. Let me call Gina. I don't even know. He was ultimately charged with battery and disorderly intoxication. The older man did mention he had a few drinks at the bar, though it was a bit hard to make out. So, it may have been easy to miss. That's all for today. Until next time.