Cell phone video captured the moments when a man punched another passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight near Dallas. In a statement, the Association of Flight Attendants has called on Congress to pass the Protection from Abusive Passengers Act amid the recent spike in unruly passengers.
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The Hispanic guy was clearly deranged while the AA guy just thinks he has the right to physically assault anyone who looks at him funny.
The usual suspects
I can’t wait to fly this summer 😂
I hope they get permanently banned from flying.
Flights are way too cheap !! Flying is like riding a city bus after midnight on a weekend.
Another grey hound in the sky. No thanks
Ain’t been on a plane since 1989, don’t see any reason to start now.
Soon to be a private pilot, one of the reasons I do not fly commercial..even though I have several friends who are commercial pilots..these people don’t understand, that once the FAA, gets involved, they’ll more then likely be charged with a felony, and probably banned for life on all commercial flights.
The puncher must have thought he was on a greyhound bus and he can do that.
With the FAA just passing a 0 tolerance policy on flights this dude will prolly be trying to pay off that fine for a long time.
The media promotes these entitled, liberal violence by not identifying the demographic of the person who punched another passenger.
Other than drunks and the mentally ill, I have no idea how this happens. Every flight I’ve been on is full of people just wanting to get the flight over with. No one wants any drama.
Again, no recommended solutions from mainstream media to protect the specific demographic of the person(s) involved.
It’s not safe even in the plane tsk tsk so many crazy people out of control
We’re gearing up to a vicious internal citizen war. People are fed up.
SAFETY NET IN THE US?!!!?
That’s a noose mister!
What a loser. Cant be an adult for 2 hours? Gotta get physical because of your insecurities…smh
POCs being POCs
LMAO!!!!
I’ve experienced first hand why these incidents happen and it’s very simple how these things occur: Everyone is disrespectful. No standardized etiquette anymore. Workers are rude to customers, customers are rude to each other. Everyone thinks being disrespectful is a way of enforcing their freedom, or showing their status is higher than others.
It wont end, but its unsustainable.
Stressing people out becomes easy when you get state-enforced groping security checkpoints as a government jobs program, shrinking cardboard plane seats as a cost-cutting measure, and arbitrary flight surcharges as a way to squeeze people out of every last cent.
Where u flying out of? every flight i been on is peaceful no one is even looking at eachother lmaoo
@Jan Žižka I really dont think stress is the cause. Again, it comes down to the disintegrating break of the social reciprocity, I hold the door, you give thanks, then pass it on type of behaviour. Its simple but it goes along way.
I experienced people do micro aggressions against others and it’s down to individuals to enforce their personal boundaries, like the example you gave, seat reclining, which I agree. Some people wont do anything about a passenger reclining their seat on them, but others will.
In the instances I’ve experienced first hand and in observation, stress is not a factor, its simply bad attitude, rude, dismissive or superiority complex approaches that cause these conflicts and I put it down to non standardized etiquette, or a break down in social reciprocity norms: Respect and consideration of others.
Whoop that trick! (Get em)
🤣😂
People now realizing it’s public transportation like anything else
Allow flight attendants to carry tasers
That why you should pay a little higher ticket price so you don’t have to be on a plane full of blacks.
Exactly congress doesn’t like common sense stuff.
I thought this only happened on the Grey Hound bus. I remember crazy people always being on board the few times I rode it back in the day when I was 18 😂
Arent flights supposed to have at least one air marshall onboard??
No.
Not surprised…. Phoenix is full of people like that
Wakanda Forever
CIVILISED WESTERN SOCIETIES
People really don’t be caring about catching federal charges huh. You ain’t going to county bud. Last time I checked it could be a max of 20 years bro. Stop playing with the feds lol.
The legislation is bad. There is already a federal no-fly list for suspected or actual terrorists, and individual airlines can ban anybody they want and deny them service/trespass them from the airport.
Imagine if you got into a verbal shouting match or mutual combat with someone at a retail store, and after the fact you find out you haven’t been banned from the store…you’ve been banned from SHOPPING ANYWHERE. No, that punishment FAR outweighs the crime. People need to travel, people need to purchase food and necessities. The government cannot simply ban someone from those necessities because they were disruptive or fought someone once. If your job is frustrating or dangerous, get a different one. Maybe one not dealing with the public.
We have lost our collective friggin’ minds. This is now normal, barely newsworthy behavior these days. Like mass shootings. The U.S. had, what, 92!! mass shootings in Jan & Feb..?!
How can we be surprised? We don’t punish crime, we have NO IDEA what is crossing our borders anymore, and our political system is a travesty.
Buckle up…
Black privilege
Children of the Corn 🌽
No! We don’t need legislation. There are already laws on the books to deal with these stuff. It’s called assault, battery, and many other charges that can be brought forward. You can’t BAN someone from flying. What’s next? Ban them from sidewalks?
These huwite soopermacists are getting out of hand
You’re referring to the passenger get pummeled?
buses of the sky
Lol mainly Americans .. the red necks of the world
Idk, I be making beanies in the terminals just to trade them for the window seats and that makes me happy. This stuff is foolish.
Lol real tough guy attack an old man
Risky business fighting on an aircraft when “interfering with a flight crew” with land you in fed prison more than likely.
Ah, south west airlines the waffle house of airlines.
So where the comments….when they….
The guy thought he is Iran or something….
Stop blaming division in society and making excuses for this BS.. everyone has problems going on one way or another and not everyone is acting like an animal
As a former cop I love how the final moments are captured.A simple bump. Rarely do older men operate like this . While I believe that violence should be a last level strategy the one sidedness is disturbing. If no arrests were made the guy wasn’t innocent.
On southwest you get what you paid for.😅😅
Why are males going crazy on planes??
This is the govt. fault making life in America so miserable we are attacking each other instead of expecting more from our govt. We are attacking the wrong enemy and the govt is happy because they caused this.
Can we raise flight prices?
Babies
Like seriously can you not just get in the plane, sit down and SHUT UP until it lands??? For fx sake..
bc everyone else on the plane is a poosay. If we stick together these crazies won’t even think about it.
but….. Black Lives Matter ?
Keep them borders open we need more terrorist to come in
Growing up I always thought there were US Marshalls on planes. They even made a movie about it. Looking back it looks like that’s mostly a myth.
How did the guy bump into his family member?
No Arrest 😂
Don’t just ban them give them high fines also
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How freaking stupid
Boondocks got it right. “This is a perfectly good chance to throw your life away!”.
Both immigrants, non FBA ✊🏿 💯 nothing to see here , typical troglodyte behavior
I will not fly unless i absolutely have to. Which isn’t saying much cuz i got bills to pay
It’s like the subway..Americans are often rude and disgusting…I took the trains in Montreal once..everyone very respectful polite dressed modestly..the ugly American isnt a myth..
I would really like to know what he did honestly. Looks like a skinhead and obviously a family man wouldn’t get triggered like that for nothing.
And it’s still not okay to put your hands on others
The dude throwing the punch is unreal. Immediately tried to place the blame on the other guy for throwing a punch
Have the vaccines made these people crazy
You have got to be kidding me. Adults who obviously failed to grow up. It’s no wonder there’s so many domestic violence if people act like this is public. Maybe parents should go back to being parents instead of trying to be best friends.
The “victim” obviously brought this assault on himself for disrespecting his fellow passengers with the whiteness of his skin. Anything less than hate crime charges against him is racism.
Typical subhuman NGR behavior
I’m just glad tsa has been keeping bottled water out of the sky
Hey I get it. They keep shrinking the leg room and raising the prices.
That’s what happens when Americans mess with other countries like Iraq and China before dealing with its own problems
Greyhound looking mighty fancy these days 😂
Prices too low.
People now wear pajamas and crocs on flights. Being in an airplane is like being in engineering church.
The whole society is garbage. It has nothing to do with the airlines.
Where was the air Marshall?
Sign of the times and it must get worse.
I would’ve got off that plane…I’m still triggered by 9/11! Next flight please!!!
Usual suspect
i pay absolutely TOO much for these flights with NOTHING included to be acting a complete fool infront of my child & to loose my flying privileges. smh just sad
They should just do what karens do. just yell “THAT IS NOT OKAY!!!” Then everyone will stop.
This isn’t normal. Something else is going on.
That guy has Charlie Manson crazy eyes.
While they’re totally in the wrong, ut doesn’t help how they cram so many people in a plane sitting right on top of one another. You can’t move without bumping into someone and it causes alot of stress for all passengers.
Everything ends in Congress..
What do you expect from 24/7 bombardment of hate , division propaganda by ALL media outlets for decades?
Promoting hate and division over trivial BS in order to have everyone at each other’s throats.
Sheeple are ignorant and easily controlled .
Wake up, lose your egos, and coexist.
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I’ve never flown on Southwest airlines. Don’t think I will. 😳
Disproportionately a problem with ethnic minorites. FACT! We’ll see if this comment even gets through?
RACISM… THIS IS RACISM!!! WHITE LIVES ALSO MATTER YOU KNOW?!?!?!?
Blk privilege he gets away with it
Affects of tik tok
No arrest were made 😂😂😂😅